{"id":370,"date":"2015-07-15T23:40:34","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T23:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesfranconetwork.net\/?p=370"},"modified":"2015-07-15T23:40:34","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T23:40:34","slug":"james-franco-ahna-oreilly-adapting-the-killer-next-door-as-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/?p=370","title":{"rendered":"James Franco, Ahna O\u2019Reilly Adapting \u2018The Killer Next Door\u2019 as Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>James Franco and Ahna O\u2019Reilly are developing a movie version of Alex Marwood\u2019s murder mystery \u201cThe Killer Next Door.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Franco and Vince Jolivette will produce through their Rabbit Bandini Productions, along with O\u2019Reilly, who may take a lead acting role.<\/p>\n<p>Marwood\u2019s debut novel, \u201cThe Wicked Girls,\u201d earned her the Edgar Award for paperback original. \u201cThe Killer Next Door,\u201d published last year, centers on six neighbors forced into an unlikely alliance without realizing that one of them is a killer who will do anything to protect his secret.<\/p>\n<p>Franco and Jolivette have become prolific independent producers. Franco directed and produced a pair of indie dramas this year \u2014 \u201cIn Dubious Battle,\u201d based on John Steinbeck\u2019s 1936 novel, with a cast that includes Franco, Selena Gomez, Robert Duvall, Ed Harris and Bryan Cranston; and \u201cThe Long Home,\u201d based on William Gay\u2019s coming-of-age story set in 1940s rural Tennessee, starring Franco, Josh Hutcherson and Zoe Levin.<\/p>\n<p>Franco has also directed two adaptations of William Faulkner novels: 2014\u2019s \u201cThe Sound and the Fury,\u201d which played at the Venice and Toronto Film Festivals, and 2013\u2019s \u201cAs I Lay Dying.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Franco was last seen in Sony\u2019s \u201cThe Interview,\u201d which he exec produced. He also produced and starred in the drama \u201cI Am Michael,\u201d which premiered at Sundance in January, portraying Michael Glatze\u2019s change in identity from gay-rights activist to Christian pastor.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Reilly starred in \u201cIn Dubious Battle,\u201d \u201cI Am Michael,\u201d \u201cThe Sound and the Fury\u201d and the upcoming \u201cAll I See Is You.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The deal for \u201cThe Killer Next Door\u201d was made by Meg Davis of the Ki Agency, in association with William Morris Endeavor, on behalf of Laetitia Rutherford of Watson, Little<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\/2015\/film\/news\/james-franco-ahna-oreilly-killer-next-door-movie-1201539178\/\">Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Franco and Ahna O\u2019Reilly are developing a movie version of Alex Marwood\u2019s murder mystery \u201cThe Killer Next Door.\u201d Franco and Vince Jolivette will produce through their Rabbit Bandini Productions, along with O\u2019Reilly, who may take a lead acting role. Marwood\u2019s debut novel, \u201cThe Wicked Girls,\u201d earned her the Edgar Award for paperback original. \u201cThe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-the-killer-next-door","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370","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=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}