Phoenix Comes out of Retirement to Play Poe

13 March 2010

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Joaquin Phoenix's rap career has been put on hold - he will return to thebig screen as Edgar Allen Poe, according to Oscar-winning sound engineerResul Pookutty.

The Walk The Line actor quit Hollywood last year (09), announcing plansto focus on becoming a hip-hop star.

He disappeared from the spotlight, only emerging for a string of bizarre TV interviews, which saw him sporting a scraggly beard and giving one-word replies to questions, and a couple of disastrous gigs.

It is a very special challenge because I have to recreate the sound textures of New York in 1854

However, Slumdog Millionaire sound designer Pookutty has revealed Phoenix is heading back to acting to play iconic American writer and poet Poe.

Pookutty tells India's Mumbai Mirror, "I couldn't be happier because I am doing a period film. It is a very special challenge because I have to recreate the sound textures of New York in 1854.

"It's an adaptation of The Beautiful Cigar Girl by Daniel Stashower andbased on an eerie real-life experience of author Edgar Allan Poe which happened just months before his death. Joaquin plays Edgar Allen Poe".

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