Inherent Vice

Da Shins Kelly · 27-01-2013 12:59am #1

Paul Thomas Anderson's next project will be taking on the Thomas Pynchon novel Inherent Vice. It's a detective thriller-comedy set in 1960s/70s Los Angeles. It was originally meant to star Robert Downey Jnr., but apparently he has dropped out and Anderson will be teaming up again with Joaquin Phoenix. It all seems to still be very much in its infancy, but it will be the first time that the very reclusive Thomas Pynchon has allowed his work be adapted for the screen.

Hope Anderson does it some justice. It'll be interesting to see how they do comedy.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/24/inherent-vice-joaquin-phoenix-robert-downey-jr_n_2545497.html

JP Liz V1 · 28-01-2013 4:22pm

RDJ would have been an interesting choice to work with PTA anyways I'm sure Joaquin Phoenix will deliver as always

Kinski · 28-01-2013 4:37pm

A Mason & Dixon film helmed by Anderson could be really interesting, I think, but Vice is probably Pynchon's most accessible - and most "filmable" - novel by a considerable distance. Not a Downey Jnr. fan at all, and glad he's no longer involved.

On a side note, Pynchon is said to be dissmissive of the idea that he's reclusive: the perception stems from his unwillingness to do interviews, attend award ceremonies, perform readings, or engage in any of the other public activities normally expected of a professional writer.

e_e · 28-01-2013 5:12pm

Da Shins Kelly wrote: »

It'll be interesting to see how they do comedy.

Watch Punch-Drunk Love

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oE2FCCZ50VU

Da Shins Kelly · 28-01-2013 7:22pm

Kinski wrote: »

A Mason & Dixon film helmed by Anderson could be really interesting, I think, but Vice is probably Pynchon's most accessible - and most "filmable" - novel by a considerable distance. Not a Downey Jnr. fan at all, and glad he's no longer involved.

On a side note, Pynchon is said to be dissmissive of the idea that he's reclusive: the perception stems from his unwillingness to do interviews, attend award ceremonies, perform readings, or engage in any of the other public activities normally expected of a professional writer.

Nobody even seems to be sure what he looks like or where he actually resides either. There are only a few known photographs of him in circulation, all from his college days. I kinda like that he stays away from it all.

e_e wrote: »

Watch Punch-Drunk Love

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oE2FCCZ50VU

Can't watch anything with Adam Sandler. He is possibly top of my list of actors who just do my head in.

e_e · 28-01-2013 7:25pm

Seriously if you like Paul Thomas Anderson you're gonna have to watch it. His second best film imho and the exception to Adam Sandler's rubbish output. He is wonderful in that film.

Da Shins Kelly · 28-01-2013 9:22pm

e_e wrote: »

Seriously if you like Paul Thomas Anderson you're gonna have to watch it. His second best film imho and the exception to Adam Sandler's rubbish output. He is wonderful in that film.

I'll give it a go and try and push aside my hatred for Adam Sandler.

pixelburp · 29-01-2013 12:09am

Da Shins Kelly wrote: »

I'll give it a go and try and push aside my hatred for Adam Sandler.

I actually think Punch Drunk Love wouldn't have worked so well without Sandler. There has always been something ... I dunno, borderline psychotic about his performances & characters from his various 'comedies'; Andersons film quite brilliantly tapped into that bubbling rage. To the point where I wondered if there might have been something oddly cathartic for Sandler himself (though it's a long while since I saw it last; I could just be remembering more than was actually there).

e_e · 29-01-2013 1:55am

Yeah this sums up why the film suited Adam Sandler so perfectly:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fc1p3dkb-oc

JP Liz V1 · 24-05-2013 3:06pm

Sean Penn, Benicio Del Toro, Owen Wilson and Reese Witherspoon also joined the cast

Da Shins Kelly · 01-06-2013 1:07am

e_e wrote: »

Watch Punch-Drunk Love

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oE2FCCZ50VU

Finally got around to watching this, but didn't really think of it as a comedy as such. I didn't really laugh at all, but I still really loved it. I thought it was very sweet and romantic in an unconventional way and incredibly symbolic in so many ways. I was really surprised by Adam Sandler too. The one and only time I can take him. Thought Philip Seymour Hoffman was brilliant too.

I'm looking forward to what happens with this one.

Da Shins Kelly · 04-06-2013 5:28pm

Couple of set photos have appeared.

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duckworth · 04-06-2013 6:50pm

He looks like Neil Young there.

JP Liz V1 · 05-06-2013 12:44am

Da Shins Kelly wrote: »

Couple of set photos have appeared.

Is that Anderson's missus Maya Rudolph?

Da Shins Kelly · 05-06-2013 12:50am

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Is that Anderson's missus Maya Rudolph?

Yes, she has actually signed on too.

JP Liz V1 · 02-07-2013 2:53pm

Peter McRobbie has joined the cast of Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice, as the loan shark Adrian Prussia (a part that people had been speculating would go to Sean Penn) - Source EW

JP Liz V1 · 18-09-2014 12:27am

No sign of a teaser trailer yet and it will premiere at the New York Film Festival

fruvai · 20-09-2014 1:27pm

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David Ketchum @KetchumAtMovies · 10h

Inherent Vice trailer to world premiere tomorrow on @YahooMovies in the AM! #WBExclusive

Can't wait !!!

fruvai · 20-09-2014 1:46pm

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Josh Brolin as Bigfoot Bjornsen - now there's a haircut you can set your watch to

JohnFalstaff · 20-09-2014 1:47pm

A nod to Altman in the 2nd image?

PTA just keeps getting better.... The Master was outstanding.

fruvai · 20-09-2014 6:03pm

David Ketchum @KetchumAtMovies · 27m

Sorry guys. Plans have changed. WB Source says Inherent Vice trailer closer to @NYFF World Premiere.

fruvai · 30-09-2014 1:52am

fruvai · 30-09-2014 1:54am

e_e · 30-09-2014 2:50pm

Now that is how you do a trailer!

Sad Professor · 30-09-2014 5:22pm

Yeah, I’ve watched it three times already. You can really feel PTA’s hand in it. As with his previous trailers, though, I’m guessing many of these scenes/moments won’t be in the final film.

emo72 · 01-10-2014 5:54pm

the trailer reminds me of "The Dude" or just "Dude", if you know what i mean.......man.

or "The Big Lebowski"

JP Liz V1 · 01-10-2014 10:01pm

Tarantino vibe from the trailer too

pixelburp · 01-10-2014 10:31pm

That. Now that is how you do a trailer.

Inherent Vice, you had my curiosity, now you have my attention.

AnonoBoy · 02-10-2014 11:37am

emo72 wrote: »

the trailer reminds me of "The Dude" or just "Dude", if you know what i mean.......man.

or "The Big Lebowski"

I thought that too. It put me in mind of The Long Goodbye as well.

Yarf Yarf · 03-10-2014 2:59pm

Amazing trailer. Very, very excited about this one. PTA keeps impressing me with every film. An incredible cast too.

Looper007 · 03-10-2014 4:04pm

Yarf Yarf wrote: »

Amazing trailer. Very, very excited about this one. PTA keeps impressing me with every film. An incredible cast too.

The man's never made a bad movie and doesn't settle to make Oscar bait even though the snubbing off America's best director today is shocking but they did snub Kubrick.

Inherent Vice

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