{"id":232,"date":"2015-02-28T00:51:09","date_gmt":"2015-02-28T00:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesfranconetwork.net\/?p=232"},"modified":"2015-02-28T00:51:09","modified_gmt":"2015-02-28T00:51:09","slug":"james-franco-in-talks-for-comedy-why-him-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/?p=232","title":{"rendered":"James Franco in Talks for Comedy \u2018Why Him?\u2019 (EXCLUSIVE)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/james-franco.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/James-Franco-012.jpg\" alt=\"James Franco\" width=\"620\" height=\"372\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/James-Franco-012.jpg 620w, https:\/\/james-franco.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/James-Franco-012-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>James Franco is in early negotiations to star in Fox\u2019s comedy \u201cWhy Him?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A pair of Fox-based production companies \u2014 Shawn Levy\u2019s 21 Laps and Ben Stiller\u2019s Red Hour \u2014 are producing.<\/p>\n<p>John Hamburg is attached to direct from a script he co-wrote with Nicholas Stoller and Ian Helfer.<\/p>\n<p>The story centers on a Midwestern father who takes his family to visit his daughter \u2014 who is attending Stanford \u2014 at Christmas and subsequently gets into a competition with his daughter\u2019s boyfriend, a young Internet billionaire.<\/p>\n<p>Franco most recently starred in Sony\u2019s satire \u201cThe Interview\u201d with Seth Rogen. He\u2019s completed work on \u201cQueen of the Desert,\u201d which premiered at Berlin, \u201cTrue Story\u201d and \u201cThe Adderall Diaries,\u201d and will star in Hulu\u2019s adaptation of Stephen King\u2019s \u201c11\/22\/63.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hamburg directed and wrote \u201cI Love You, Man\u201d and \u201cAlong Came Polly.\u201d Stoller directed \u201cNeighbors.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\/exec\/james-franco\/\">Source<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Franco is in early negotiations to star in Fox\u2019s comedy \u201cWhy Him?\u201d A pair of Fox-based production companies \u2014 Shawn Levy\u2019s 21 Laps and Ben Stiller\u2019s Red Hour \u2014 are producing. John Hamburg is attached to direct from a script he co-wrote with Nicholas Stoller and Ian Helfer. The story centers on a Midwestern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}