There Will Be Blood is loosely based on Upton Sinclair's 1927 novel Oil!The movie follows Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day Lewis) who is a simple silver miner who discovers oil during his mining efforts.Fast forward a hand full of years and Plainview has become a shrewd business man making plenty of money along the way.But Plainview has got to the point were he will step over everyone to get what he wants his only concern is to discover new oil spots.But Plainview comes up against man of God Eli Sunday and he wants to drill on Eli's land.However he wants to keep Sunday out of his share of the money believing that he is not business man and won't realise.
But Sunday believes that there is more money to be gained than Plainview is letting on.
There Will Be Blood is a tale of love, hope, corruption and deception as Plainview discovers the American Dream and is consumed and destroyed by it.
Starring; Daniel Day Lewis, Paul Dano, Kevin J. O'Connor, Ciaran Hinds and Russell Harvard.
There Will Be Blood is released 15 February 2008.
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