Walking The Line

After the rip-roaring success of Sweet Home Alabama, Reese Witherspoon is once more heading back to her southern roots and has persuaded Puerto Rico-born Joaquin Phoenix to join her. Grabbing the nearest guitar and getting all dolled up in trademark black, Phoenix is set to star as Johnny Cash in Walk The Line, a biopic of the legendary country music star. Witherspoon is lined up to play The Man in Black's bandmate and wife, June Carter. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Cop Land director James Mangold is collaborating with Cash and Carter on the project and has already bagged the rights to use the crooner's original music in the flick. Described as a non-traditional biopic, the movie will centre on a snapshot of Cash's life concentrating on his younger years when he moved to Memphis as country music started to heat up. And as befitting any flick about a music legend, drugs won't be absent either. Cash's crippling drug addition in the 60s will be traced with his eventual kicking of the habit no doubt included for inspiring effect.