River Phoenix's last film to be released next year

I was a massive fan of River Phoenix. He was my bedroom poster boy with his devastatingly good looks and unique talent.

He was roughly the same age as me and making interesting films often about the troubles of youth. Not a troubled youth myself, well not in anyway to cause real concern, I nonetheless identified with many of the characters and was often moved by his performances.

Despite his looks, which must have had casting directors queueing up, he never sold out in his choices. In fact I can probably credit him with shaping my interest in independent and non-mainstream cinema.

His death from a drugs overdose cut short what would, I'm sure, have been a long and interesting career, so it's with great interest that I read that the last film he made is to finally be released next year. He'd nearly finished making Dark Blood when he died and his younger brother, the equally talented Joaquin, is apparently going to help out with some final voice work as he sounds very similar.

It's difficult to express in words how excited I am to see this and it is certainly near the top of my list of most anticipated films of next year.

 

Comments

[Rev Stan]

I'm the same. Was only talking the other day with a friend about what he might have done and what Joaquin's career would have been like had he still been alive.

[allycat]

Agreed; the world lost a young talent (not unlike Amy Winehouse). I often wonder what he would've become and done were he still alive.