Interesting news about an upcoming project from Magnolia director Paul Thomas Anderson:
“The Master” is the story of a charismatic intellectual (Philip Seymour Hoffman) who hatches a faith-based organization that begins to catch on in America in 1952 called The Cause. The core dynamic centers on the relationship between The Master and Freddie Sutton…an aimless twenty-something drifter and alcoholic who eventually becomes the leader’s loyal lieutenant. As the faith begins to gain a fervent following, Freddie finds himself questioning the belief system he has embraced, and his mentor.
You may recognise that ‘The Master’ seems analogous to another historical individual, in the same sense that Elron Hu may have been in PKD’s The Turning Wheel…
