The duo’s second collaboration, released on Christmas Day, takes them into the world of British high fashion circa the ’50s.
Paul Thomas Anderson
Focus Features has secured the worldwide distribution rights to the untitled fashion drama that will see There Will Be Blood director Paul Thomas Andersen reteam with actor Daniel Day-Lewis. Focus will finance the $35 million production, eyeing a release date of the second half of 2017, just in time for awards season.
No details about the project have been revealed and no deals have been set, but the film will be the first time the Academy Award winning actor and the director since 2007’s There Will Be Blood.
Kept under wraps, but will take place in the fashion world during the 1950s.
The project, inspired by the classic Carlo Collodi novel, stars Downey as aging puppeteer Geppetto, who creates the titular wooden puppet that dreams of becoming a real boy.
Story centers on Larry ‘Doc’ Sportello, a pothead private eye trying to uncover a plot to kidnap a billionaire in 1969 Los Angeles.
Story centers on Larry ‘Doc’ Sportello, a pothead private eye trying to uncover a plot to kidnap a billionaire in 1969 Los Angeles.
Story centers on Larry ‘Doc’ Sportello, a pothead private eye trying to uncover a plot to kidnap a billionaire in 1969 Los Angeles.
Story centers on Larry ‘Doc’ Sportello, a pothead private eye trying to uncover a plot to kidnap a billionaire in 1969 Los Angeles.
A young drifter becomes a student of a charismatic intellectual who’s faith-based organization begins to catch on in America in 1952.
A young drifter becomes a student of a charismatic intellectual who’s faith-based organization begins to catch on in America in 1952.
A young drifter becomes a student of a charismatic intellectual who’s faith-based organization begins to catch on in America in 1952.
A young drifter becomes a student of a charismatic intellectual who’s faith-based organization begins to catch on in America in 1952.
A young drifter becomes a student of a charismatic intellectual who’s faith-based organization begins to catch on in America in 1952.
A young drifter becomes a student of a charismatic intellectual who’s faith-based organization begins to catch on in America in 1952.
Logline: Story centers on Larry ‘Doc’ Sportello, a pothead private eye trying to uncover a plot to kidnap a billionaire in 1969 Los Angeles.
Logline: Based on characters from the novel “The Adventures of Pinocchio” written by Carlo Collodi, which was initially serialized between 1881 and 1883.
Logline: A young drifter becomes a student of a charismatic intellectual who’s faith-based organization begins to catch on in America in 1952.
Logline: On the frontier of California’s turn-of-the-century petroleum boom, Daniel Plainview transforms himself from a down-and-out silver miner raising a son on his own into a self-made oil tycoon.
