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'There Will Be Blood' for Daniel Day-Lewis
The award-winning actor is to play an oil prospector in Paul Thomas Anderson's next flick.
Jan 18 2006
Daniel Day-Lewis has signed up to star in 'There Will Be Blood', a no-hold-barred expose of the oil business at the turn of the 20th century.
Loosely based on Upton Sinclair's 1927 novel 'Oil!', the film casts Day-Lewis as a Texas oil prospector who buys the oil rights to a family's ranch in Southern California and immediately hits pay-dirt.
Paul Thomas Anderson, who has been absent from screens since 2002's 'Punch-Drunk Love', will write and direct the $25 million pic which is a co-production between Paramount Classics and Miramax.
Speaking of the project, Paramount speciality division president John Lesher said: 'It's an ambitious film and a compelling, relevant story about family, greed, religion and oil.'
'There Will Be Blood' is due to start shooting in Texas and New Mexico in May.
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