Monday, May 20, 2013

Penn Poised For PTA's "Inherent Vice"

Sean Penn is the latest name circling director Paul Thomas Anderson's adaptation of author Thomas Pynchon's novel "Inherent Vice" says Cis & Red Vines.

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.

Penn's is thought to be that of a powerful loan shark with a violent temper.

 

Martin Short Owen Wilson Jena Malone Reese Witherspoon and Benicio Del Toro co star.

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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