Actor Joaquin Phoenix is set tomake his big screen return with Timur Bekmambetov's movie Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, where he will play avampire.
The Oscar nominated star is in talks to playHenry Sturgess, an ageless vampire who saves Lincoln as ayoung boy and becomes his best friend, Huffington Postreported online.
The 36-year-old actor will be playing Sturgess, whomentors Lincoln and explains to him the history of vampirism. Tim Burton is producing the project based on the bookof the same name by Seth Grahame Smith alongside Jim Lemleyand Bekmambetov.
Twice Oscar-nominated Phoenix was last seen in Walkthe Line in 2005, but later made a mock-documentary 'I'mStill Here' 2010.
The Golden Globe-winning actor "gave up acting" for arap career in a public appearance campaign that transformedinto a bizarre documentary about his breakdown and hip hoprebirth.
It all turned out to be a giant hoax, an artexperiment with brother-in-law Casey Affleck that was poorlyreceived.
The Oscar nominated star is in talks to playHenry Sturgess, an ageless vampire who saves Lincoln as ayoung boy and becomes his best friend, Huffington Postreported online.
The 36-year-old actor will be playing Sturgess, whomentors Lincoln and explains to him the history of vampirism. Tim Burton is producing the project based on the bookof the same name by Seth Grahame Smith alongside Jim Lemleyand Bekmambetov.
Twice Oscar-nominated Phoenix was last seen in Walkthe Line in 2005, but later made a mock-documentary 'I'mStill Here' 2010.
The Golden Globe-winning actor "gave up acting" for arap career in a public appearance campaign that transformedinto a bizarre documentary about his breakdown and hip hoprebirth.
It all turned out to be a giant hoax, an artexperiment with brother-in-law Casey Affleck that was poorlyreceived.
