The Disciple

Joaquin Phoenix is eyeing a return to work more akin to what he was doing before I’m Still Here.

The Oscar-nominated actor has been talking to Paul Thomas Anderson about joining the religious drama the writer-director has developing that’s loosely based on the founding of Scientology.

The project a.k.a. The Master tells the story of a charismatic leader named Lancaster Dodd – who Phillip Seymour Hoffman is attached to play – who creates a new religion in the 1950s.

Phoenix would play his main disciple, an alcoholic drifter named Freddie Sutton who becomes Dodd’s closest follower only to later break away from him.

Sounds like an interesting endeavor, huh.

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