In 1969 Los Angeles, 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.
Martin Short and Jena Malone have also joined the film. Malone plays a former drug addict, the other two roles are being kept under wraps.
Benicio 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. Owen Wilson co-stars.
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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