In December of last year
Paul Thomas Anderson started to reveal plans for his next feature, a script tentatively titled
The Master which follows a man who creates a 'faith-based organization' that blossoms into an empire in the 1950s - a not so thinly disguised Scientology tale.
Anderson quickly cast
Philip Seymour Hoffman in the title role, and
Jeremy Renner (
Hurt Locker) had been eyeing the role of Freddie, the young man ...