Paramount Vantage has posted the script for There Will Be Blood online, so you can go there and read it, if you’re so inclined.  Though I’m not sure why you’d read the script when you can just watch the actual movie when it comes out.  (Whereas you can read scripts for movies that may never get made right here on FilmDrunk).  

It’s like some backasswards version of Cliff’s Notes for smart people.  You think you’re freakin better’n me, Poindexter? With your reading and your wordlovery?! Well now I’m wearing a beret and smoking a pipe.  Yeah.  Who’s the smart one now, assface? 

The makers of There Will be Blood put a deleted scene from the movie online that you can watch here.  They say:

here’s a good scene that we didn’t need… it won’t spoil anything.

They use all lowercase letters, because they’re cryptic like that.  I’m pretty excited about this.  Daniel Day-Lewis is such a hardass that I won’t even call him on his hyphenated last name.  Or on the fact that my abs are way more rippeder.  Hit the weights, pussy.  (In limited release 12-26-07)

I’d also like to point out that Juno made $60,000+ per theater last weekend.  If the makers of There Will Be Blood are reading this, perhaps they’ll consider it a lesson and put this on more than seven f*%cking theatres, while National Treasure and So I Married Martin Lawrence or whatever other turd is out that weekend is playing every 10 minutes.  Just a thought. 

Watch the latest trailer for There Will Be Blood

Apple has the newest trailer for Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood.  It opens the day after Christmas, and the early reviews starting to trickle in are nothing short of sycophantic.   Variety’s Marjorie Baumgarten (hee hee, bum garden) says:

Certain to be rewarded with year-end accolades, Anderson’s film is a true American saga — one that rivals Giant and Citizen Kane in our popular lore as origin stories about how we came to be the people we are. 

Harry Knowles says:

This is not just the best performance of the year to date, but one of the great performance period. [sic]

My girlfriend had a performance period once; I thought I’d never get clean. The above quote, of course, is buried beneath in-depth analysis of the new sneakers Harry just bought and a meditation on why he prefers Funions to Bugle snacks.  

I’ll tell you this though, it looks like PTA’s learned to edit since Magnolia, and after getting hosed at the Oscars after playing Bill the Butcher (say what you want about the movie, but that character was one of the ultimate badasses of all time), Daniel Day-Lewis is man on a mission.  That he’s also a man with a hyphenated name is just something I’m going to have to learn to live with.  [Reviews via RT]

Commenter Stone Soup adds, "Lance, my ex-wife used to have performance periods as well.  She’d warn me before any contact by saying – "There will be blood"."  I’m angry at myself for missing that angle. 

Newer, better trailer here

Earlier today I posted the poster and first pics from There Will be Blood.  Then astute commenter vertigoa was kind enough to send me the trailer.  

Boy, my job sure is easy when other people do it for me. It opens November 21st.  Your mother's legs?  Always open.

Today we've got the poster and first two shots of There Will Be Blood, the new Paul Thomas Anderson movie starring Daniel Day-Lewis.  Though I hated Magnolia's mix of pathetic characters and thirty extra seconds of camera masturbation at the end of every scene, I think between Boogie Nights and Punch Drunk Love, PTA's latest deserves a chance. 

I don't even know what it's about.  But I don't have to.  I'm all like, "Hey, what's it about?"  And then the stuffed elephant on my bed goes, "Bill the Butcher's in it.  There will be blood."  

You're right, I'm there.  Sorry I ever doubted you, elephant. 

This time around, instead of tackling pornography or raining frogs, Anderson brings us an epic about a family who strikes oil at the turn of the century. And The Beverly Hillbillies it ain't. There Will Be Blood focuses on the greed, corruption and other problems that stem from being a Texas oil prospector in the early 20th Century.

You know, in case a plug from an inanimate object wasn't enough for you.