I'll say this for James Franco's new outing as a director, and his highest-profile directorial gig to date: it takes some balls to tackle William Faulkner. The source material here is Faulkner's seventh novel As I Lay Dying, which charts a family's attempt to transport the body of its late matriarch to her preferred burial…
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With his Cormac McCarthy adaptation Child of God in post-production, multi-hyphenate James Franco is prepping another literary classic for his next feature. Two winters ago, he was trying to get the William Faulkner estate on board for a movie version of As I Lay Dying. It seems he was successful, as the film's now begun…
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Yesterday a lot of people were surprised when word came out that James Franco is actively pursuing two very lofty directorial ambitions -- he wants to write and direct film versions of William Faulkner's landmark novel As I Lay Dying, and Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian. There was some initial skepticism about half of that report,…
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You can't say that James Franco isn't ambitious. He has recently optioned a set of memoirs as possible writing and directing projects, and seems to be taking acting gigs at a rapid pace, all while studying at Yale. Now there's a report saying we can add two other possible directorial projects to the pile, and…
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