Based on Stashower’s novel
Signs and Walking the Line star Joaquin Phoenix is playing Edgar Allan Poe in yet another film centering around the writer. That’s right, Phoenix is supposedly out of retirement – which he announced some time ago.
According to the India Times, the project is an adaptation of Daniel Stashower’s “The Beautiful Cigar Girl” which concerned the peculiar death of tobacco clerk Mary Rogers and the story Poe penned a year later “The Mystery of Marie Rogêt.” No writer or director has been revealed for this film which sounds a bit Black Dahlia-esque.
More as it comes…
Source: India Times
