Tuesday, May 07, 2013

Benicio Del Toro Has A Small "Vice"

Benicio Del Toro is cicling a role in director Paul Thomas Anderson's adaptation of author Thomas Pynchon's novel "Inherent Vice" says The Wrap.


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

Del Toro is in talks to play the small but key role of an unlicensed attorney who's always trying to keep Doc out of trouble.

Anderson wrote the adapted screenplay

Anderson, Megan Ellison, John Lesher and JoAnne Sellar will produce the film .

Robert Downey Jr. had been attached to the lead role

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.

The film is expected to begin production this month

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