Benicio Del Toro in talks to join Paul Thomas Anderson's 'Inherent Vice'

By Jeff Sneider LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Benicio Del Toro is in talks to join Joaquin Phoenix in writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson's "Inherent Vice," TheWrap has learned. Warner Bros. will distribute and finance the film, which Anderson has adapted from Thomas Pynchon's soft-boiled crime novel. A studio spokesman did not immediately respond to TheWrap's request for comment. Set in Los Angeles during the spring of 1970, the film follows pot-smoking private detective Doc Sportello (Phoenix) as he investigates the case of a kidnapped girl. ...



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