Magnolia: The Shooting Script
Description : The only companion book to Paul Thomas Anderson s acclaimed film Magnolia: The Illustrated Screenplay includes the complete shooting script introduction and script notes by Anderson an interview with the writer/director and complete cast and crew credits.Anderson deliberately withheld information about his new film during production because I feel lately as if I know everything about a movie before I see it and I really want the audience to discover this purely. Featuring an ensemble cast and in an unbilled role Tom Cruise (who called Anderson to express interest in working with him) the film is now described by New Line as follows:There are stories of coincidence and chance and intersections and strange things told. There is the story of a Dying Father the Young Wife his Lost Son the Caretaker the Boy Genius his Father the Game Show Host the Daughter the Mother the Ex Boy Genius and the Police Officer in Love.There are nine plots that tell one story set in the San Fernando