12 March,2010 04:19 PM IST | | Entertainment Team
Sound recordist Resul Pookutty, who won the Oscar for his work in Slumdog Millionaire, has now signed his second major international film. The project is a period film set in New York of 1854 and stars Joaquin Phoenix as the author Edgar Allen Poe. It is based on the book The Beautiful Cigar Girl written by Daniel Stashower about a scary experience in Poe's life.
