Josh Brolin has joined the cast of Paul Thomas Anderson's adaptation of author Thomas Pynchon's novel "Inherent Vice" says Deadline.
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.
No details have been revealed about Brolin's role.
Martin Short Owen Wilson Jena Malone Reese Witherspoon and Benicio Del Toro co star. Sean Penn is tipped to take a role as well.
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.
Production hopes to begin this summer.
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