Joaquin Phoenix-still on the comeback trail--is in early talks to join Paul Thomas Anderson's Scientology veiled religious drama formerly titled "The Master" says Variety.
The story centers on the relationship between The Master (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a charismatic intellectual who hatches a faith-based organization that begins to catch on in America in 1952, and the 20-something alcoholic drifter who becomes his right-hand man. As the faith begins to gain a fervent following, the drifter finds himself questioning the belief system he has embraced, and his mentor.
Phoenix would play the drifter, a role that Jeremy Renner was once linked to.
Anderson directs from his own original script and it will be produced by longtime collaborator JoAnne Sellar.
Financing is currently being sought.
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