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Suffering Psyclos!! Phillip Seymour Hoffman To Play Lafayette Ronald Hubbard In New Movie From Paul Thomas Anderson??

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Paul Thomas Anderson (“There Will Be Blood”) is hatching a new movie to star Phillip Seymour Hoffman, an actor with whom he collaborated on “Sydney,” “Boogie Nights,” “Magnolia” and “Punch-Drunk Love.”

Hoffman, says Thursday morning’s Variety, will play “The Master”:

a charismatic intellectual who hatches a faith-based organization that begins to catch on in America in 1952. The core is the relationship between the Master and Freddie, a twentysomething drifter who becomes the leader's lieutenant. As the faith begins to gain a fervent following, Freddie finds himself questioning the belief system he has embraced, and his mentor.

Scientology was founded by L. Ron Hubbard in 1952, but there may be scores of other new religions I’m not thinking of that began to catch on in America in the 1950s.

The project, which has not yet received greenlight, is currently set up at Universal.

Paul Thomas Anderson has never directed a bad movie, and hasn’t directed a movie of any stripe since 2007’s “Blood,” which brought Daniel Day Lewis a best-actor Oscar and garnered Anderson Oscar nominations for best director, best adapted screenplay and best picture.

Find all of Variety’s story on the matter here.

Find an examination of the "South Park" examination of Scientology here.

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I hope he shows the atrocities, lies and crimes...
by Kirbymanly
Dec 3rd, 2009
12:52:18 AM
This could be amazing!!!
by Charlie_Allnut
Dec 3rd, 2009
12:52:28 AM
FIRST
by Charlie_Brigante
Dec 3rd, 2009
12:52:32 AM
Holy shit, expect some serious problems from the church
by bullet3
Dec 3rd, 2009
12:53:03 AM
expect cruise to do a new commentary for MI3
by heavenlykid
Dec 3rd, 2009
12:55:48 AM
Ineteresting....
by CurlySue
Dec 3rd, 2009
12:56:17 AM
THEY ARE GOING TO GO BUGSHIT OVER THIS.
by RedHorseVector
Dec 3rd, 2009
01:01:34 AM
curlysue: have you ever seen l. ron hubbard???
by RedHorseVector
Dec 3rd, 2009
01:03:39 AM
PTA = best filmmaker today under 60
by hegele
Dec 3rd, 2009
01:06:12 AM
btw, who here has seen battlefield earth?
by RedHorseVector
Dec 3rd, 2009
01:06:33 AM
Calm down people
by readyoufool
Dec 3rd, 2009
01:07:58 AM
also,
by readyoufool
Dec 3rd, 2009
01:09:04 AM
AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
by Lashlarue
Dec 3rd, 2009
01:11:04 AM
hoffman will NAIL hubbard's voice, too.
by RedHorseVector
Dec 3rd, 2009
01:12:01 AM
You are Clear of your milkshake
by BoRock_A_Boomer
Dec 3rd, 2009
01:13:49 AM
This better happen.
by Johnny Smith
Dec 3rd, 2009
01:15:21 AM
ready: i agree with you.
by RedHorseVector
Dec 3rd, 2009
01:18:52 AM
"i drain your soul! I DRAIN IT UP!"
by hegele
Dec 3rd, 2009
01:19:30 AM
after reading the variety article...
by RedHorseVector
Dec 3rd, 2009
01:23:59 AM
Directd by John Smith, Starring John Smith
by palooka_boy
Dec 3rd, 2009
01:35:11 AM
I am a false prophet....
by RipleyGrady
Dec 3rd, 2009
01:52:41 AM
Should base it on
by Walter_Burns
Dec 3rd, 2009
02:13:49 AM
palooka_boy
by Walter_Burns
Dec 3rd, 2009
02:15:28 AM
Is this going to happen?
by Pompoulus
Dec 3rd, 2009
02:15:38 AM
I think you guys are getting a little too carried away with the
by The_Coyote
Dec 3rd, 2009
02:19:51 AM
....Scientology aspect.
by The_Coyote
Dec 3rd, 2009
02:20:17 AM
The secret of Scientology: IT'S A SCI/FI STORY!!!
by Fareal
Dec 3rd, 2009
02:45:19 AM

by Nerd Rage
Dec 3rd, 2009
02:45:24 AM
Sue Me: the motion picture
by Nerd Rage
Dec 3rd, 2009
02:59:31 AM
Aww man looks like TWBB peaked his interest
by TheWaqman
Dec 3rd, 2009
03:00:50 AM
Lincoln film by PTA and Daniel Day Lewis as Abe.
by snakecharmer
Dec 3rd, 2009
03:07:18 AM
Scientology is unfairly malined and a beautiful
by Quin the Eskimo
Dec 3rd, 2009
03:24:46 AM
Fareal...
by Kirbymanly
Dec 3rd, 2009
03:26:08 AM
Also
by Quin the Eskimo
Dec 3rd, 2009
03:27:39 AM
UFOlogy catched up in the 50s too
by AsimovLives
Dec 3rd, 2009
03:33:52 AM
And a new Paul Thomas Anderson movie is always cool news
by AsimovLives
Dec 3rd, 2009
03:35:32 AM
Lashlarue
by AsimovLives
Dec 3rd, 2009
03:39:23 AM
I'll watch anything PTA makes...
by film_fanatic_in_the_original_b lack_and_white
Dec 3rd, 2009
03:41:58 AM
PTA did work with Cruise
by HarryLove
Dec 3rd, 2009
04:32:57 AM
A word on Scientology.
by V'Shael
Dec 3rd, 2009
05:10:59 AM
THERE WILL BE GLYNORG DEATHRAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
by alice133
Dec 3rd, 2009
06:03:43 AM
Quoting MST3K "The Master? Bobby Fisher?"
by ricarleite2
Dec 3rd, 2009
06:22:32 AM
News of a new PTA film is...
by CraaayZ
Dec 3rd, 2009
06:51:28 AM
Was hoping he was reprising the same role...
by Nice Marmot
Dec 3rd, 2009
07:39:03 AM
serious question
by Argentino
Dec 3rd, 2009
07:42:47 AM
Not What I Would Have Chosen For My Favorite Director...
by Crow3711
Dec 3rd, 2009
07:48:04 AM
Why is every one thinking this is about...
by Sailor Rip
Dec 3rd, 2009
08:19:50 AM
Paul Thomas Anderson did
by Series7
Dec 3rd, 2009
08:21:22 AM
Other Religions
by Come_ON
Dec 3rd, 2009
08:38:35 AM
There was a criminal lack of Hoffman in There Will Be Blood
by Nasty In The Pasty
Dec 3rd, 2009
08:52:05 AM
I'd rather see PSH play LaFayette from TRUE BLOOD
by ZombieHeathLedger
Dec 3rd, 2009
08:53:10 AM
come_on: the problem is, most of them don't know.
by RedHorseVector
Dec 3rd, 2009
08:58:16 AM
SOUNDS GOOD
by idrinkyourmilkshake
Dec 3rd, 2009
09:12:55 AM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X enu
by BGDAWES
Dec 3rd, 2009
09:17:35 AM
@Come_ON : The thing about Xenu is...
by V'Shael
Dec 3rd, 2009
09:23:21 AM
@BGDAWES - The South park clip
by V'Shael
Dec 3rd, 2009
09:28:20 AM
BGDAWES the clip you are referring to is right here
by CronenbergResearcher
Dec 3rd, 2009
09:28:51 AM
V'Shael
by BGDAWES
Dec 3rd, 2009
09:28:57 AM
At least the Europeans are suing them...
by Bill Clay
Dec 3rd, 2009
09:29:00 AM
By the way, that was a reference
by BGDAWES
Dec 3rd, 2009
09:34:59 AM
@Bill Clay : The only difference is time.
by V'Shael
Dec 3rd, 2009
09:39:27 AM
Oops "Pantheistic" not "patheistic"
by V'Shael
Dec 3rd, 2009
09:40:17 AM
I'm looking forward to this...
by Kontarsky
Dec 3rd, 2009
09:44:48 AM
RipSailor Is right
by Crow3711
Dec 3rd, 2009
09:46:42 AM
Wow - pretty deep talk back
by BGDAWES
Dec 3rd, 2009
09:47:26 AM
will the show el-ron
by NippleEffect
Dec 3rd, 2009
09:47:40 AM
Come_ON
by Come_ON
Dec 3rd, 2009
09:51:40 AM
But Still
by Come_ON
Dec 3rd, 2009
09:53:16 AM
I like
by Come_ON
Dec 3rd, 2009
09:53:45 AM
Sometimes
by Harold-Sherbort
Dec 3rd, 2009
10:20:09 AM
Will Robert Heinlein be a character in this movie?
by Royston Lodge
Dec 3rd, 2009
10:33:19 AM
I'd rather see PSH play LaFayette from TRUE BLOOD
by Rene_Belloq_12inch_Figure
Dec 3rd, 2009
10:33:47 AM
Series7
by AsimovLives
Dec 3rd, 2009
10:37:49 AM
Royston Lodge
by AsimovLives
Dec 3rd, 2009
10:39:08 AM
Harold-Sherbort
by AsimovLives
Dec 3rd, 2009
10:42:09 AM
Royston Lodge
by rkhalloran
Dec 3rd, 2009
10:45:45 AM
JettL93
by AsimovLives
Dec 3rd, 2009
10:51:37 AM
WOW! This really is cool!
by johnnyangel
Dec 3rd, 2009
10:52:00 AM
rkhalloran
by AsimovLives
Dec 3rd, 2009
10:54:26 AM
Back to the PTA new movie news.
by AsimovLives
Dec 3rd, 2009
10:56:39 AM
Asimovlives
by Harold-Sherbort
Dec 3rd, 2009
11:03:23 AM
Hoffman is great at playing psychos so
by Grammaton Cleric Binks
Dec 3rd, 2009
11:05:33 AM
Damn. I really liked the Stranger in a Strange Land angle...
by Royston Lodge
Dec 3rd, 2009
11:05:48 AM
"Sydney"??
by Leto III
Dec 3rd, 2009
11:41:42 AM
That said...
by Leto III
Dec 3rd, 2009
11:42:10 AM
as long as no one involved *IS* a scientologist
by spidercoz
Dec 3rd, 2009
11:46:28 AM
The only thing scarier than Scientologists...
by HoboCode
Dec 3rd, 2009
11:51:52 AM
SHUT UP! SHUT THE FUCK UP!!
by HoboCode
Dec 3rd, 2009
11:55:11 AM
Atheism is a religion
by p0llk4t
Dec 3rd, 2009
12:31:35 PM
Whoa.
by DarthCorleone
Dec 3rd, 2009
12:38:31 PM
Xenu is the sexiest tomboy beanpole in the UNIVERSE!
by Vic Twenty
Dec 3rd, 2009
12:44:21 PM
i'm embarrassed to say i've never seen hard eight.
by RedHorseVector
Dec 3rd, 2009
01:25:49 PM
Atheism is not a religion,
by V'Shael
Dec 3rd, 2009
01:29:16 PM
Sydney (Hard Eight) is required viewing
by Robstar
Dec 3rd, 2009
01:37:43 PM
atheiesm (and agnosticism) can't be religions..
by THEoverfiend
Dec 3rd, 2009
02:26:15 PM
Xenu drinks a beer and cheats on his wife.
by solanine
Dec 3rd, 2009
02:38:21 PM
Atheism isn't a religion . . .
by Supernatural_Canary
Dec 3rd, 2009
02:38:48 PM
but it is dogmatic.
by Supernatural_Canary
Dec 3rd, 2009
02:39:26 PM
Scientology is no crazier than Christianity
by Lucasblows
Dec 3rd, 2009
02:48:34 PM
I wonder how long it will be until PTA mysteriously
by CronenbergResearcher
Dec 3rd, 2009
02:49:37 PM
Leto III
by natrlbornthrllr
Dec 3rd, 2009
02:52:17 PM
Agnosticism: "I know in that I don't know"
by natrlbornthrllr
Dec 3rd, 2009
03:00:26 PM
BOOORING!!! Get back to talking about this movie!
by Royston Lodge
Dec 3rd, 2009
04:14:49 PM
phillip seymour playshimselfman
by HaterofCrap
Dec 3rd, 2009
05:04:47 PM
Magnolia is a bad movie
by Tall_Boy66
Dec 3rd, 2009
05:56:22 PM
Seriously, they should use Magnolia at Gitmo
by Tall_Boy66
Dec 3rd, 2009
05:57:17 PM
Hollywood already...
by VanDammeShuffle
Dec 3rd, 2009
06:16:00 PM
Everyone's got a Dirk Diggler over PTA
by MacReady452
Dec 3rd, 2009
06:29:50 PM
Atheism is a NOT religion...
by Bill Clay
Dec 3rd, 2009
07:52:33 PM
Atheism is a life philosophy
by Turingtestee
Dec 3rd, 2009
08:56:39 PM
Frankly,
by Turingtestee
Dec 3rd, 2009
09:07:44 PM
Also,
by Turingtestee
Dec 3rd, 2009
09:09:49 PM
Besides Scientology...
by JesseSpots
Dec 3rd, 2009
09:40:59 PM
JesseSpots
by JesseSpots
Dec 3rd, 2009
09:47:40 PM
Tom Cruise as Xenu cameo?
by Black_Super_Predator
Dec 3rd, 2009
09:53:56 PM
He won't be able to name him L. Ron Hubbard
by SithMenace
Dec 3rd, 2009
09:59:53 PM
MINDHEAD, anyone?
by Sgt.Steiner
Dec 3rd, 2009
09:59:59 PM
Different animal entirely
by Turingtestee
Dec 3rd, 2009
11:45:54 PM
Re: Religion/PTA
by ArmageddonProductions
Dec 4th, 2009
01:54:51 AM
"there may be scores of other new religions I’m not thinking of"
by manifestchaos
Dec 4th, 2009
03:58:14 AM
Seriously ... scores of new religions? what fucking planet
by manifestchaos
Dec 4th, 2009
04:17:06 AM
Perfect material for PTA.
by Knuckleduster
Dec 4th, 2009
05:11:40 AM
Scores of new religions... Yes, there were.
by V'Shael
Dec 4th, 2009
06:59:42 AM
Scores of new religions... Yes, there were.
by V'Shael
Dec 4th, 2009
07:02:55 AM
Harold-Sherbort
by AsimovLives
Dec 4th, 2009
07:14:07 AM
Anybody who says that atheism is a religion is fucked up
by AsimovLives
Dec 4th, 2009
07:16:01 AM
There's a new religion at AICN:
by AsimovLives
Dec 4th, 2009
07:18:38 AM
So funny how some think that atheists believe in "nothing".
by Knuckleduster
Dec 4th, 2009
10:12:21 AM
Knuckleduster
by AsimovLives
Dec 4th, 2009
12:16:49 PM
V'Shael
by AsimovLives
Dec 4th, 2009
12:33:21 PM
And according to an Australian cencus
by AsimovLives
Dec 4th, 2009
12:34:00 PM
@AsimovLives
by V'Shael
Dec 4th, 2009
12:43:16 PM
Tom Cruise IS Michael Valentine Smith
by dogu4
Dec 5th, 2009
03:00:19 PM
DIURETICS
by Wyatt Wingfoot
Dec 6th, 2009
10:32:32 PM
its GOTTA be Hubbard altho not proven
by JesseSpots
Dec 11th, 2009
11:37:59 PM

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