Supposedly not 100% about L Ron Hubbard........


The film was partly inspired by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, as well as early drafts of There Will Be Blood, stories Jason Robards had told Anderson about his drinking days in the Navy during the war, and the life story of John Steinbeck.The Master was shot almost entirely on 65 mm film stock, making it the first feature length fiction film to be shot and released in 70 mm sinceKenneth Branagh's Hamlet in 1996.