Joaquin Phoenix at the premiere of the film “Napoleon” in Madrid, Spain, on November 20. Photo by OSCAR DEL POZO / AFP
The Oscar winner Joaquin Phoenix would be about to be sued after he abruptly left his latest project, a few days before filming begins, which translates into very high production costs.
Phoenix, 49, was due to meet with the filmmaker Todd Haynes in Mexico to begin filming, but at the last minute decided to stay out of the movie. “There has been a huge outrage,” a studio executive told the Hollywood Reporter, adding that they are considering taking the film on. legal actions against him.
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The film, which does not yet have a definitive title, would tell a intense gay romance developed in the 1930s; and although it was he himself who showed the project to Haynes, there are several sources that relate that He is said to have “cowered” at the last minute due to the controversial subject matter.
The media also claimed that the Hollywood producer community is seeking to file a lawsuit against Phoenix because, as if that were not enough, I had already collected a large sum of money for his performance.
There have also been plans to blacklist Phoenix from Hollywood, but considering that the sequel to “The Joker” is expected to be a hit even before it is released, this would not be feasible.
This is not the first time that Joaquin has put an entire production in trouble: Sources say that the actor threatened to abandon the filming of the movie “Napoleon” (2023), by Ridley Scott unless they hired the director Paul Thomas Anderson.
