Wacky New Trailer for Paul Thomas Anderson’s INHERENT VICE - “Paranoia”
Yesterday we posted six clips from Paul Thomas Anderson’s wonderfully weird-looking film Inherent Vice. Warner Bros. has released a new trailer for the movie called “Paranoia.” The twisted and amusing mystery gets a limited release this week so that it can qualify for the upcoming award season. It will then open wide in January. In anticipation of the early release, the studio has released a fantastic new trailer for you to enjoy. Joaquin Phoenix plays private eye Doc Sportello, who gets caught up in something big called the Golden Fang.
Inherent Vice is the seventh feature from Paul Thomas Anderson and the first ever film adaption of a Thomas Pynchon novel.
When private eye Doc Sportello’s ex-old lady suddenly out of nowhere shows up with a story about her current billionaire land developer boyfriend whom she just happens to be in love with, and a plot by his wife and her boyfriend to kidnap that billionaire and throw him in a loony bin…well, easy for her to say.
It’s the tail end of the psychedelic `60s and paranoia is running the day and Doc knows that “love” is another of those words going around at the moment, like “trip” or “groovy,” that’s being way too overused—except this one usually leads to trouble.
With a cast of characters that includes surfers, hustlers, dopers and rockers, a murderous loan shark, LAPD Detectives, a tenor sax player working undercover, and a mysterious entity known as the Golden Fang, which may only be a tax dodge set up by some dentists... Part surf noir, part psychedelic romp—all Thomas Pynchon.
The limited release run begins on December 12th.