What would it take for Joaquin Phoenix to come out of retirement?Despite speculation earlier this year that Phoenix would resume his once-hot acting career with a film adaptation of 'Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter' (the 2010 novel by Seth Grahame-Smith), the actor is now being linked to a much more controversial project.
And if there's one thing Phoenix seems to relish, it's controversy!
Phoenix -- whose last film was the outrageous, head-scratching mockumentary 'I'm Still Here' -- is now rumored to be reversing his retirement plans to co-star in Paul Thomas Anderson's much-anticipated movie taking aim at Scientology.
According to New York magazine, Oscar nominee Jeremy Renner ('The Hurt Locker') had originally been slated for a role that, thanks to financing delays, may now end up reviving Phoenix's career.
In the script, Philip Seymour Hoffman is set to co-star as a charismatic, manipulative leader (fashioned after Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard) who founds a new religious movement in the 1950's. Now Variety reports that Phoenix may step in to portray an alcoholic drifter who becomes the right-hand man to Hoffman's character, but develops doubts about his mentor.
After Phoenix's long, bizarre experiment as a bearded rapper was filmed by 'I'm Still Here' director Casey Affleck (and then failed to wow fans and critics), the Oscar nominee, 36, tiptoed back into the public eye in January, as part of an online video in support of suicide prevention.
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