James Franco pays the bills (and has a great time) in big movies, and in friend projects such as This Is the End and The Interview. On the side, he has become a prolific art house director. His latest directorial effort to hit theaters is a really something to behold. Based on the Cormac McCarthy…
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2013 was a big year for James Franco. Not only did he star in a whole bunch of things, from Spring Breakers to Oz the Great and Powerful to This Is the End to ABC's The Mindy Project, he also hit the film festival circuit with three separate films that he'd directed. Two of them, Interior. Leather Bar. and As I Lay…
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While Ridley Scott brings Cormac McCarthy's first original screenplay to the big screen, James Franco is tackling another of his stories. The multi-hyphenate's latest directorial effort is Child of God, based on McCarthy's novel of the same title. Scott Haze leads the cast as Ballard, a violent outsider turned serial killer in '60s Tennessee. The…
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James Franco has been very keen on adapting a Cormac McCarthy novel to film. It was going to be Blood Meridian, and Franco in fact shot some test footage (with Mark Pellegrino, Scott Glenn, Dave Franco and Luke Perry) in 2010 to prove to producer Scott Rudin that he had the goods to make the…
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You may recall that some months ago, James Franco was gunning for a job directing Blood Meridian, the acclaimed fifth novel by No Country for Old Men author Cormac McCarthy. Although that project never really materialized, Franco apparently hasn't given up his dreams of tackling a McCarthy book. The actor/director/writer/producer has now shifted his attention…
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