New 'The Master' Teaser: Meet Philip Seymour Hoffman's Sort-Of L. Ron Hubbard

While the first teaser for Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master didn't get much into the film's widely-acknowledged Scientology critique--instead touching on Joaquin Phoenix's fugue state and sand-breast creation--this newest pseudo-trailer that's popped up on the Weinstein Company's YouTube hints a little stronger at what's to come. The allusions to Scientology still probably aren't distinct enough to set off Tom Cruise's alarm implants, but we are shown a glimpse of the film's implicit L. Ron Hubbard analogue: a mustachioed Philip Seymour Hoffman who describes himself as "a writer, a doctor, a nuclear physicist, a theoretical philosopher" and who bears more than a passing resemblance to the Scientology founder. Based on looks alone, if this somehow isn't about L. Ron Hubbard, then it sure as shit is about Jeffrey Jones.

The Scientology community is going to be so pissed when they're still forced to reluctantly admit that, as always, Amy Adams delights.