Paul Thomas Anderson to work with Jack Nicholson?
An interesting rumor about next Paul Thomas Anderson movie hits the web.
It’s always been hard to guess what Paul Thomas Anderson might do next after ”Hard Eight”, ”Boogie Nights”, ”Magnolia” and ”There Will Be Blood”, of course.
Cigarettes and Red Vines (Paul Thomas Anderson news site) say that Paul Thomas Anderson is at work on a movie with Jack Nicholson, called ”Power Play.”
It’s “about a gambling entrepreneur from a Native American casino who decides to take on Las Vegas.”
The film is to be produced through Paramount Pictures and Robert Evans based on the novel by Peter Bart (editor-in-chief of Variety).
But again, this is just a rumor. We’ll see…
Jack Nicholson Struggled To Watch His Early Movies
The 70-year-old star - who has won three Oscars during his illustrious career - walked out of his own retrospective at Colorado’s Telluride Film Festival because he struggled to watch his early “desperate” performances.
“It is tremendously hard to look at your work. They did a retrospective at Telluride Film Festival and showed all the movies and I couldn’t bear it. I had to leave the cinema.”
”All I could see in the early films, before ‘Easy Rider’, was this desperate young actor trying to vault out of the screen and create a movie career.” he said.
Jack also revealed filmmakers are constantly writing scenes for his unique character, in which he is allowed to do whatever he wants:
“I’m always aware when they’re trying to write a ‘Jack’ scene. They will write, ‘Let him run wild.’ “
Jack Nicholson Misquoted
Jack Nicholson insists stories claiming he warned Heath Ledger about the dangers of sleeping pills are not true, stating he never even met the tragic star.
He was asked how he felt about the actor’s death last month (Jan08) by photographers in London and he was quoted as saying, ‘I told him so’.
However, the 70-year-old star,states he was misquoted and was simply warning everyone against using that brand of pills.
He says, What I actually said was: ‘I warned them’. I had a bad experience with those sleeping pills (that Ledger apparently took).
‘I took one of these pills and had just gone to sleep when I had a phone call to go to an emergency at a friend’s house. I jumped up, went outside and some time later woke up on the driveway.’
‘It sounds amusing but I live in the mountains and it could of been worse. I didn’t know Heath Ledger, but I know those pills’.
Jack Nicholson: ‘I Warned him!’
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