Rooney Mara and Jonah Hill are in talks to join Joaquin Phoenix in “Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot,” a biopic about quadriplegic cartoonist John Callahan, an individual with knowledge of the project told TheWrap.
Gus Van Sant will direct while Iconoclast and Anonymous Content are producing the film, based on Callahan’s autobiography of the same name. A car accident at the age of 21 left Callahan paralyzed, so he started to draw to cope. His drawings depicted taboo topics which led to various boycotts in Portland, his hometown.
Callahan’s art was published in the New Yorker, Penthouse and Playboy.