Despite the Oscar-winning success of There Will be Blood, Paul Thomas Anderson has had huge problems getting a movie made ever since, with various ideas either ending up in limbo or being abondoned completely. Most recently he’s been working on a film called The Master, about a cult leader and his protege, as well as an adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s Inherent Vice.
Both looked in danger of never finding funding, but in the last couple of weeks it looked like he’s found money for both, and is now looking the cast his Pynchon flick.
Dropping out of Oz: The Great and Powerful has left a nice hole in Robert Downey Jr.’s upcoming production schedule, and according to THR, he may fill that spot by appearing as the lead in Inherent Vice. Pynchon’s novel tells the story of a stoner PI in 1969 Los Angeles who gets mixed up in a series of mysteries while the Manson Family murder trail plays out in the background.
Robert Downey Jr. hopes to shoot the movie immediately following his stint in the The Avengers, which would see Paul Thomas Anderson starting production on the thriller sometime this autumn.