{"id":403,"date":"2015-08-26T04:16:03","date_gmt":"2015-08-26T04:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesfranconetwork.net\/?p=403"},"modified":"2015-08-26T04:16:03","modified_gmt":"2015-08-26T04:16:03","slug":"bryan-cranston-to-star-alongside-james-franco-in-comedy-why-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/?p=403","title":{"rendered":"Bryan Cranston to Star Alongside James Franco in Comedy \u2018Why Him?\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/james-franco.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/brian-cranston-james-franco-why-him.jpg\" alt=\"brian-cranston-james-franco-why-him\" width=\"670\" height=\"377\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/brian-cranston-james-franco-why-him.jpg 670w, https:\/\/james-franco.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/brian-cranston-james-franco-why-him-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bryan Cranston will join James Franco in the 21 Laps and 20th Century Fox comedy \u201cWhy Him?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>John Hamburg is onboard to direct, and will co-write the script with Ian Helfer. Shawn Levy is producing under his 21 Laps banner, with Ben Stiller also attached to produce through his Red Hour Films shingle. Dan Levine, 21 Laps president, is overseeing the project along with Fox\u2019s Jeremy Kramer.<\/p>\n<p>The comedy is set over the holidays, when a Midwestern dad travels with his family to visit his daughter at college, and soon finds himself in a battle for her affections with her brash new tech billionaire boyfriend.<\/p>\n<p>Franco and Cranston are already building chemistry on Franco\u2019s next directing gig \u201cIn Dubious Battle,\u201d in which the two co-star.<\/p>\n<p>Cranston\u2019s \u201cTrumbo\u201d hits theaters on Nov. 6 following its September premiere at the Toronto Film Festival. He is also lending his voice to DreamWorks Animation\u2019s \u201cKung Fu Panda 3.\u201d He is repped by UTA.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\/2015\/film\/news\/why-him-bryan-cranston-james-franco-1201573651\/\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bryan Cranston will join James Franco in the 21 Laps and 20th Century Fox comedy \u201cWhy Him?\u201d John Hamburg is onboard to direct, and will co-write the script with Ian Helfer. Shawn Levy is producing under his 21 Laps banner, with Ben Stiller also attached to produce through his Red Hour Films shingle. Dan Levine, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-why-him","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403","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=403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}