He's open about it being early days, and plans could yet turn soft, but James Franco is wanting to direct and star in a film of James Ellroy's American Tabloid.
He told MTV:We're going to do American Tabloid... It's not all put together yet. It's still early. You're getting the scoop.
The book has a pretty big scope, so this would likely be Franco's most ambitious picture yet. Here's a blurb to give you some idea:We are behind, and below, the scenes of JFK's presidential election,the Bay of Pigs, the assassination--in the underworld that connectsMiami, Los Angeles, Chicago, D.C....
Where the CIA, the Mob, J. Edgar Hoover, Howard Hughes, Jimmy Hoffa,Cuban political exiles, and various loose cannons conspire in a covertanarchy...
Where the right drugs, the right amount of cash, the right murder,buys a moment of a man's loyalty...
Where three renegade law-enforcement officers--a former L.A. cop andtwo FBI agents--are shaping events with the virulence of their greedand hatred, riding full-blast shotgun into history...
Why, of course James Franco is interested in this.
It sounds like an expensive project to get right, and it's certainly on a big canvas. I felt more confident about the chances of it landing right when Tom Hanks' Playtone were looking to adapt the book into a TV series. I wonder how that went wrong?
Here's the full interview between MTV, Franco and his Kink co-director Christina Voros - or at least the few seconds they decided to share.
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