Joanna Newsom Picks Up Role In PTA's "Inherent Vice"

Singer Joanna Newsom will join Paul Thomas Anderson's adaptation of author Thomas Pynchon's novel "Inherent Vice" says IndieWire.

In 1969 Los Angeles, Joaquin Phoenix will play a stoner detective named Doc Sportello, whose ex-girlfriend (Katherine Waterston of "Taking Woodstock" and "Michael Clayton") Shasta, sets things in motion. Now a straight-laced partner to a real estate mogul, she enlists Doc's help to protect the mogul from his murderous wife and her young boytoy.

There are no details on the musician's role in the movie.

Martin Short Owen Wilson Jena Malone Reese Witherspoon Josh Brolin Maya Rudolph Timothy Simons and Benicio Del Toro co star. Peter McRobbie will play loan shark Adrian Prussia.  Sean Penn is up to take a role as well.

Anderson wrote the adapted screenplay

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

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 currently shooting in Los Angeles.