Podcast | There Will Be Blood (2007), plus Mike Leigh

There Will Be Blood
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Paul Thomas Anderson and the not-always-easy shoot of There Will Be Blood. Plus, a long chat with Mike Leigh as Hard Truths lands…


Acclaimed as one of the finest films of the 2000s, Paul Thomas Andersonā€™s There Will Be Blood was ā€“ at one stage ā€“ a movie people werenā€™t keen to pay for. The movie though has an unlikely link to the book Fast Food Nation, and Anderson dropped a different idea to go with it.

Then, there was the small matter of the first two weeks of filming having to be pretty much re-done from scratch.

The second half of the episode is a career-spanning chat with filmmaker Mike Leigh, that takes in his new movie ā€“ Hard Truths, landing in UK cinemas on 31st January 2025 ā€“ but also goes back some 60 years to the start of his famous processā€¦

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