{"id":305,"date":"2015-04-21T23:13:48","date_gmt":"2015-04-21T23:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesfranconetwork.net\/?p=305"},"modified":"2015-04-21T23:13:48","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T23:13:48","slug":"james-franco-and-jonah-hill-get-serious-in-dark-drama-true-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/?p=305","title":{"rendered":"James Franco and Jonah Hill Get Serious in Dark Drama, &#8216;True Story&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>We know James Franco and Jonah Hill as the goofy, unstoppable pair in This is the End \u2013 but now, things are taking a turn for the serious in their new dark and gritty drama, True Story.<\/p>\n<p>Hill stars as Michael Finkel, a disgraced journalist who meets Christian Longo (Franco), an accused killer who has assumed Finkel\u2019s identity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think people naturally want Jonah and I to get along when they see us in a scene together,\u201d Franco told ET. \u201cThey become interested in the relationship &#8212; just because who we are and our history and from other kinds of movies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have such huge respect for them,\u201d said co-star Felicity Jones. \u201cThey push boundaries and they care about film so much and [they\u2019re] always trying new things, so it&#8217;s great to work with them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The film is produced by Brad Pitt\u2019s production company, Plan B \u2013 and served as Franco\u2019s introduction to Pitt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is so so nice,\u201d said Franco. \u201cHe was really interested in the kind of the things I was doing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is the best boss in that he lets everyone just get on with their work,\u201d said added Jones.<\/p>\n<p>True Story is currently in theaters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"http:\/\/link.brightcove.com\/services\/player\/bcpid1250536613001\/?bctid=4185132357001\" ><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.etonline.com\/movies\/163138_james_franco_and_jonah_hill_get_serious_dark_drama_true_story\/\">Source<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We know James Franco and Jonah Hill as the goofy, unstoppable pair in This is the End \u2013 but now, things are taking a turn for the serious in their new dark and gritty drama, True Story. Hill stars as Michael Finkel, a disgraced journalist who meets Christian Longo (Franco), an accused killer who has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-true-story","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305","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=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}