Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon in "Walk the Line."
"Walk the Line"/Twentieth Century Fox
- James Mangold considered Joaquin Phoenix for Johnny Cash in "A Complete Unknown."
- Phoenix played Cash in Mangold's 2005 movie "Walk the Line."
- Mangold decided Phoenix would be too old and didn't want to service "meta-movie universe stuff," he told BI.
"A Complete Unknown," James Mangold's look at the life of Bob Dylan, almost gave us another taste of Joaquin Phoenix as Johnny Cash.