There Will Be Blood (2007), plus Mike Leigh
Paul Thomas Anderson and the not-always-easy shoot of There Will Be Blood. Plus, a long chat with Mike Leigh as Hard Truths lands...
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Show Notes
Acclaimed as one of the finest films of the 2000s, Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood was - at one stage - a movie people weren't keen to pay for. The movie though has an unlikely link to the book Fast Food Nation, and Anderson dropped a different idea to go with it.
Then, there was the small matter of the first two weeks of filming having to be pretty much re-done from scratch.
The second half of the episode is a career-spanning chat with filmmaker Mike Leigh, that takes in his new movie - Hard Truths, landing in UK cinemas on 31st January 2025 - but also goes back some 60 years to the start of his famous process...
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