Alright folks, Harry here... Once again I find myself in the position of trying to clarify things for folks based on erroneous misperceptions cascaded upon mankind by folks that have little information to go on.... and admittedly... I have a little more, not much... just a tad.

Right now, Paul Thomas Anderson's Untitled Adam Sandler Flick is codenamed X-4 PROJECT. Doing my super Sherlock investigation skills, I discovered that there was once a video game called MEGAMAN X-4 which had a funny British accented Colonel and Reploid-chick named Iris! However, my ample gut tells me that Adam Sandler would not play a Reploid chick and that Emily Watson won't be playing a British Colonel. So I continued to search for greater meaning to the title. Rockets are often titled with the letter X, like in ROCKETSHIP XM.... and then there are those planets called X in THE MAN FROM PLANET X, and then there is that planet that Duck Dodgers and Marvin the Martian fought over. And since this film company (NEW LINE) is owned by parent company AOL/TIME/WARNER, my deductive skills have postulated that Luis Guzman could be playing Space Cadet Porky, Adam Sandler is obviously Duck Dodgers, Philip Seymour Hoffman will play Marvin The Martian, and John C Reilly will play the man that sends Dodgers on his most dangerous mission. Emily Watson? Well, they've added a romantic interest to stretch the plot past an 8 minute cartoon, she'll be playing the sexiest space-babe of all... a cross-dressing Bugs Bunny.

Now once my super brain had figured this all out, I began thinking about the genius of Paul Thomas Anderson to try and make a live-action feature film of DOCK DODGERS IN THE 24 1/2 CENTURY! Noone is expecting it. Not even New Line or the Actors. It's genius!

Ya know.... X-4 PROJECT could also be broken down to mean.... X- as in Unknown.... and 4 as in the 4th film by Paul Thomas Anderson.... and Project could mean like it's a thing that is being worked on that he hopes to turn in one day for a grade or money or something.

Naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah, obviously it's DUCK DODGERS in live action!

All kidding aside. The film is currently going under the name X-4 PROJECT, and I received this report below:

Harry,

Call me Mr. Kaida.

PT Anderson is good friends with John Brian, the producer of Fiona Apple's latest CD and the man responsible for some of the Magnolia soundtrack I believe. Anyways, John Brian's girlfriend, Mary Lynn Ricecub has been cast as Adam Sandler's sister. She is a gifted comedian that has also been cast in Steve Martin's new sketch comedy show, "The Downer Channel." I've been told that this is not an Adam Sandler project as much as it is Adam Sandler doing a PT Anderson film. It will be a romantic comedy. I will find out more soon. Till then, keep your fingers crossed that this is not the end of a marvelous streak of great PT Anderson flicks.

Han, two, three!!!!!

Harry here... When last I heard from PTA, he told me that the film was NOT an ADAM SANDLER COMEDY, but more like the films he has made before, that the movie was very much a Paul Thomas Anderson film. Now as to WHY he is using Adam Sandler? Well, both PTA and Quentin Tarantino see something with great potential with Adam Sandler. Maybe, just maybe they are right too. By no means am I a big Adam Sandler fan. And yes, I am terrified of Sandler talking like a fisherman with a lure in his bottom lip, but I have faith in PTA that he has something smart and wonderful in mind for all us filmgoers. But I am also keenly aware that filmmakers that are great can stumble here and there.... But somehow, I think PTA knows where the cracks in this sidewalk are and is watching his step.