I have add Public Appearances from 2013 to the gallery.
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March 01, 2015
| By admin • 0 comments • 27 | The Sound and the Fury |
The 12th Annual Oxford Film Festival started out with a bang. Thursday night, hundreds of Oxonians gathered at the Oxford Studio Cinema because of a picture that was posted to Instagram hours before. James Franco surprised everyone with his selfie and the caption announcing that he was en route to Oxford for the premiere of his film The Sound and the Fury.
Being such a Faulkner fanatic, it is a wonder that Franco has never been to Oxford before. But he certainly wanted to make up for his time lost while he was in town. After a visit to Faulkner’s grave and a two hour tour of Rowan Oak, Franco was ready to unpack his bags and stay for the weekend.
“After his tour, he tried in vain to wake up his personal assistant so that she could change his flight,” The Sound and the Fury producer Lee Caplin said. “It was so late that no one in his circle was up and he ended up having to leave the next morning.”
Franco’s love for Faulkner goes back to his high school days. “I was in high school when my dad gave me copies of As I Lay Dying and The Sound and the Fury,” said Franco. “I was a reader before, but this was the first time I’d ever read something that dense.” Years later, while filming a movie in Prague, his knee was injured and he was bed-ridden for weeks. During this time, Franco read several Faulkner novels. That’s when his infatuation with the writer began
Franco and Caplin met for the first time about eight years ago to discuss Faulkner and the possibility of producing a movie together.
“What started out as a half hour lunch turned into a three hour meeting,” Caplin said. “I had it in mind that I wasn’t going to do this with someone on a whim. I wanted to know that he was really serious about it. And he proved himself.”
Both As I Lay Dying and The Sound and the Fury have truly honored Faulkner and his novels. Though his work has been adapted to screen before, no on has truly captured what it is to read a Faulkner story.
“Until Franco, Hollywood has never dealt with the real Faulkner. There have been movies based on his work, but they were just Hollywood versions with fake southern accents,” Caplin said.
The two have made such a great team and they aren’t stopping now. Faulkner’s The Hamlet and The Bear are next on their agenda.
March 01, 2015
| By admin • 0 comments • 22 | ‘Why Him?’ |
James Franco has become one of our most prolific actors/directors/writers/artists/deli meat purveyors (probably)—he is, in the parlance of the Full House theme song, everywhere you look. Not only is he starring in Hulu’s upcoming Stephen King miniseries 11/22/63, but he’ll also appear in the new comedy Why Him? from co-writer Nicholas Stoller and the director of I Love You, Man.
The Wrap reports that Franco is in negotiations to star in Why Him?, which centers on a father who decides to take his family on a trip to Stanford to visit his eldest daughter in college. That’s when he meets her new boyfriend, an internet billionaire, and the two become competitive over the young woman’s interests. Franco would play the internet billionaire because of course he would.
Why Him? was co-written by Ian Helfer and Nicholas Stoller, the latter of whom is best known for his screenplays for Get Him to the Greek and the recent Muppet movies. Director John Hamburg helmed I Love You, Man, a somewhat overlooked but incredibly hilarious film. He also directed the Ben Stiller–Jennifer Aniston comedy Along Came Polly (another underrated gem), as well as episodes of The New Girl and Stella.
Franco recently starred in the needlessly controversial film The Interview with Seth Rogen, and has several projects hitting theaters this year, including Sundance premieres I Am Michael and True Story, and the upcoming Werner Herzog film Queen of the Desert, opposite Nicole Kidman.
