PT Anderson's To Direct Upton Sinclair's OIL!

By Wind(up)bird March 29, 2005 6:13 AM

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According to ptanderson.com (a fan site, not his), PT Anderson (Magnolia, Punch Drunk Love, Boogie Nights), the overly talented, artsey prick director has updated Upton Sinclair's novel, Oil!, for the screen. ?Anderson is looking for money and rumor has it, Daniel Day-Lewis has agreed to star.

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? ? ? ? ?Amazon describes the book as "a novel out of the oil scandals of the Harding administration, providing in the process a detailed picture of the development of the oil industry in Southern California. Bribery of public officials, class warfare, and international rivalry over oil production are the context for Sinclair's story of a genial independent oil developer and his son, whose sympathy with the oilfield workers and socialist organizers fuels a running debate with his father. Senators, small investors, oil magnates, a Hollywood film star, and a crusading evangelist people the pages of this lively novel."

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