Joaquin Phoenix to play Johnny Cash in movie

LOS ANGELES (Johnny Cash Fans Website) - Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon will star as Johnny Cash and his wife, June Carter, in Walk the Line, a biopic which 20th Century-Fox has budgeted at $28 million U.S. (co-star will be Reese Witherspoon).
Joaquin Phoenix as the Man in Black and Reese Witherspoon as his wife, June Carter Cash. The movie is titled Walk the Line after Cash's 1956 hit, I Walk the Line.
The movie aims to chronicle the late singer's life, from his days on a cotton farm in Arkansas in the late 1940s to his troubled time as a superstar in Nashville in the late 1960s. Cash died Sept. 12 at age 71, four months after his wife of 35 years, who died at age 73.