I’m sure like us, you’re a massive fan of crazy-bearded rapper Joaquin Phoenix, who left acting behind with dreams of touching people with his music. He did manage to touch people, but mainly their gag reflex. Early last year he said he’s never make another movie again, but as he seemed to be in the middle of a minor nervous breakdown at the time, many expected he’d change his mind. Now it seems he has.
Oscar winning sound engineer Resul Pookutty, who won for his work on Slumdog Millionaire, has been talking to the Mumbai Mirror and has said that Phoenix, an Oscar-winning thespian himself, is set to return to the big screen sometime next year in an adaptation of Daniel Stashower’s The Beautiful Cigar Girl.
Phoenix is set to play Edgar Allen Poe in the film, which is based on an eerie real-life experience the author had just months before his death. The script is based on a true story that follows Poe’s investigation in solving the mystery behind the brutal death of a beautiful society girl.
However what isn’t clear is whether this is the same as a film announced in January, which had a very similar plot, but at the time was going under the title The Raven.
Phoenix’s involvement hasn’t been officially announced yet (and who knows, perhaps he won’t be in the movie, and we can look forward to more of his rapping), but hopefully this suggests he’s calmed down a bit and decided being crazy isn’t a good look.