Martin Short, Jena Malone join "Inherent Vice" star-studded crime film

PanARMENIAN.Net - Paul Thomas Anderson continues to cast his adaptation of Thomas Pynchon's novel "Inherent Vice" as Martin Short and Jena Malone are the latest additions to the star-studded ensemble, TheWrap has learned.

Short and Malone are expected to join Joaquin Phoenix, Owen Wilson, Benicio Del Toro and Reese Witherspoon in the soft-boiled crime film, which follows a pot-smoking private detective named Doc Sportello (Phoenix) as he investigates a missing persons case that may have larger implications.

Malone will play a former drug addict who asks Sportello for help, while Short's small role is being kept under wraps.

While it has been years since Short was last seen on the big screen, he did voice key characters in Tim Burton's "Frankenweenie" and DreamWorks Animation's "Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted," and he's also set to star in the Public Theater's one-night-only performance of "The Pirates of Penzance" in Central Park.

Malone will soon be seen playing Johanna Mason in "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire" and she recently co-starred alongside Bill Paxton in the "Hatfields & McCoys" miniseries.