Deadline is reporting that Oscar nominee Joaquin Phoenix (The Master, Her, You Were Never Really Here) will star in A24’s currently untitled drama feature, which will be written and directed by Mike Mills (20th Century Woman, Beginners).
A clown-for-hire by day, he strives to be a stand-up comic at night…but finds that the joke always seems to be on him.
The movie will serve as Phoenix’s first role post his already critically acclaimed performance in Joker, which arrives in theaters on October 4.
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