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Paul Thomas Anderson’s Power Play or Not!?

Rumor has it that Paul Thomas Anderson’s follow-up to There Will Be Blood might be an adaption of Peter Bart’s novella Power Play, which Paramount acquired in 1998 for producer Robert Evans to develop.

Evans named Anderson as director and Jack Nicholson as a potential star. And here’s the quote:

“I’ve got P.T. Anderson very excited about adapting and directing it. Before he directed Boogie Nights, he covered the gambling terrain very convincingly with Hard Eight. I’m also giving it to Jack Nicholson, who is perfect for the main role,” Evans told Variety in 1998. “It’s an extraordinary story. The largest gambling entrepreneurs are not Trump or Wynn or Kerkorian — they’re the Indians. They operate the most profitable casinos in the world and most are not even full-blooded Indians — they can be one-eighth and still control the tribe, the land and the casino. If they made the worst deal in selling Manhattan for $24, they’re making up for it with a weapon more lethal than bows and arrows.”