Inherent Vice

As was announced yesterday, Thomas Pynchon's novel Inherent Vice, is scheduled to be adapted to film by Paul Thomas Anderson in partnership with Warner Bros. This recent Warner Bros. announcement is being compared to Kubrick's past collaboration with the exceptionally large studio, which will undoubtedly result in a much larger audience for Anderson. This announcement reminds me of the scene in a movie named Synecdoche, New York (which coincidentally stars one of Anderson's regularly cast actors) where Phillip Seymour Hoffman's character is granted what seems to be a multi-million dollar grant solely to promote and motivate his genius which would in turn be expected to benefit those who would is result, observe the creation. Then again, this could cause PTA to create what he feels would be a blockbuster which could be disastrous to all involved, but hey now, aren't all PTA fans too optimistic to consider the latter result, the answer is no, not likely, for we may enjoy PTA's There will be Blood solely due to the scarring cynicism.

I personally feel PTA will not sacrifice his integrity to be associated with Warner Bros. and likely persuaded the giant with Master inspired dianetics, to throw bags of money at his backside to propel his unique whims of self expression. Inherent Vice will take longer than expected to create. PTA will not compromise, which is already evident, considering he told Robert Downey Jr. he was too old for the starring role. Poor Iron Man... See you in the theater.