Wednesday, January 09, 2013

PTA's "Inherent Vice" Attracts RDJ & Theron

Charlize Theron and Robert Downey Jr. are circling Paul Thomas Anderson’s next film, the adaptation of author Thomas Pynchon's novel "Inherent Vice" says  Showbiz 411.


In 1969 Los Angeles, Downey will play a stoner detective named Doc Sportello, whose ex-girlfriend (Theron), sets things in motion when she comes to Doc with a story about her billionaire land developer boyfriend being kidnapped.

PTA has been talking about making Vice since 2010, but went off to make The Master instead. Word is PTA is looking to make Vice into a comedy in the vein of Cheech and Chong meets The Big Lebowski or Boogie Nights,

Megan Ellison is producing.

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