Every bit of casting news on Paul Thomas Anderson's upcoming film, previously titled The Master, is going to bring a smile to my face. Even if I don't recognize most of them, the fact that the movie is being made at all is a gift. For awhile there it looked it would never get off the ground.
Variety reports that Laura Dern(Jurassic Park
), David Warshofsky(Taken
), and Jesse Plemons(Friday Night Lights
) have joined Philip Seymour Hoffman and Joaquin Phoenix in the religiously tinged flick. Hoffman stars as a guy named Lancaster Dodd, who returns home from WWII a disillusioned man. He begins a religion that begins to take hold in America. Joaquin Phoenix is Freddie Sutton, a former alcoholic who becomes Dodd's right hand man, until questions start to take hold. Dern has been rumored to be a part of the film for some time, and it's expected she'll take on the female lead as Dodd's wife. Warshofsky will play a detective, while Plemons will be Dodd's son. Dern can be seen right now in the Will Ferrell dramedy, Everything Must Go. Warshofsky is a veteran character actor who has worked with Anderson on There Will Be Blood
. Plemons is a fast rising star, most recently appearing in the Simon Pegg/Nick Frost comedy, Paul
.
