Joaquin Phoenix Might Return to Acting as Edgar Allen Poe? (The Beautiful Cigar Girl)

[GreenScar]

Come on Joaquin, come back and do what you were meant to do!

By now everyone knows that Joaquin Phoenix quit acting a few years ago to grow a simply amazing bird's nest of a beard (seen above) and presumably fall into obscurity. However, fans of Phoenix may be excited to hear that he may be making a return to acting after all. The Mumbai Mirror (via The Playlist) recently spoke with sound recordist Resul Pookutty who said, "I couldn't be happier because I am doing a period film. It's an adaptation of The Beautiful Cigar Girl by Daniel Stashower and based on an eerie real-life experience of author Edgar Allen Poe which happened just months before his death. Joaquin plays Edgar Allen Poe."

The novel itself is based on a true story and is in no way related to James McTeigue's forthcoming Poe film The Raven featuring Jeremy Renner. Here's what Entertainment Weekly says about Stashower's Poe book:

In July 1841, Mary Rogers, a beautiful young New York cigar clerk, was strangled and her body tossed in the Hudson River, a crime so ghastly that it pitted the city's sensational tabloids against each other in a contest of rumor and speculation. Due to a bungled investigation from start to finish, the murder appealed enough to Edgar Allan Poe that he co-opted it for ”The Mystery of Marie Rogêt.” Knocking back and forth between the unending case and Poe's utterly depressing life cycle of debt, poverty, and alcoholism, Daniel Stashower's Cigar Girl takes a solidly comprehensive look at the predecessor to today's all-too-common media crime frenzies.

There's definitely a part of me that would love to see Phoenix return to the big screen again, especially in an interesting role like this, different from anything he's ever done before. However, this is the first we've heard of this project at all and have no idea who is attached as writer, director or know of anybody else involved, so don't get too excited about it just yet. I'm sure it has some potential and there are probably some smart creative minds behind it, but details are so sketchy at the moment, it's hard to call anything fact right now

[Blu Ian]

return? Where have he been?

[GreenScar]

Originally Posted by James Hetfield

return? Where have he been?

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Originally Posted by GreenScar

By now everyone knows that Joaquin Phoenix quit acting a few years ago to grow a simply amazing bird's nest of a beard (seen above) and presumably fall into obscurity.

[WyldeMan45]

Not sure what to think about this. I am a big Joaquin fan but if his return is just a small role in a film nobody has heard anything about, and the guy giving up info is named Pookutty I just don't trust it.

[vegeta88]

Joaquin Phoenix is a pretty darn good actor so I'll be happy if he returns.

[Moviefan1203]

I knew Joaquin Phoenix's 'retirement' wouldn't last too long. This sounds like a project that is perfect for him. He's a great actor who makes great films.

[WyldeMan45]

Originally Posted by Moviefan1203

I knew Joaquin Phoenix's 'retirement' wouldn't last too long. This sounds like a project that is perfect for him. He's a great actor who makes great films.

Hell his retirement lasted longer than Viggo Mortensen's did.