Joaquin Phoenix In Talks To Join Jacques Audiard's ‘The Sisters Brothers’ With John C. Reilly

It would seem that Joaquin Phoenix has an embarrassment of options at the moment. Last week, he was eyeing a role playing Jesus in "Mary Magdalene" opposite Rooney Mara, and now a major French auteur wants him for a pretty exciting new picture.

Phoenix is in talks to join John C. Reilly in Jacques Audiard's "The Sisters Brothers." Based on Patrick deWitt's acclaimed novel, the darkly funny movie is set against the backdrop of the Gold Rush and follows brothers Eli and Charlie Sisters who are hired to kill prospector Hermann Kermit Warm. Here's the book synopsis: 

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Hermann Kermit Warm is going to die. The enigmatic and powerful man known only as the Commodore has ordered it, and his henchmen, Eli and Charlie Sisters, will make sure of it. Though Eli doesn't share his brother's appetite for whiskey and killing, he's...