Coming Out Of Retirement! Joaquin Phoenix To Play Edgar Allan Poe?

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Inspired casting choice, if it's true!

Joaquin Phoenix is reportedly returning to the silver screen as Edgar Allan Poe after not having acted for quite some time sporting his nasty facial hair and giving bizarre interviews!

Slumdog Millionaire sound designer Pookutty revealed to an Indian newspaper:

"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 and based on an eerie real-life experience of author Edgar Allan Poe which happened just months before his death. Joaquin plays Edgar Allen Poe."

He's a talented actor — we'll be interested to see if Joaquin confirms the news!

[Image via Johnny Louis / WENN.]

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The Mary Rogers murder is interesting and well-known for three reasons: 1) it is the only real murder that Poe investigated, 2) it is one of America’s first tabloid murders, and 3) it is an interesting case study for feminist scholars since the tabloids focused more on what was done to Mary than on who Mary was as a person. She almost loses her identity in the process. No one even knows where she was buried, but they know all the gruesome details about how she was killed. Amy Srebnick is the real expert on the Mary Rogers case - not Daniel Stashower.