2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: James Franco’s Black Dog, Red Dog

Not unlike Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s rapport with the festival, Sundance has become a place where James Franco/RabbitBandini Productions gets to both test-drive and showcase his creative output. Last year’s fest saw him showcase both Interior. Leather Bar. and kink, and while we fully expect to see the filmmaker there for Bukowski, with Holy Land as a possible outside shot, there potentially might be room in the New Frontier section for an anthology of films that were ultimately “patched” together by NYU graduate students. Closer to Tar than the previous pair of mentioned titles, shooting on Black Dog, Red Dog began in early 2012 with a tally of ten, mostly inexperienced filmmakers that for at least nine of them had to win a contest to be part of the “larger” project.

Gist: Featuring Franco, Olivia Wilde, Chloë Sevigny, Logan Marshall-Green, this is based on Stephen Dobyns‘ book of poetry.

Production Co./Producers: Edward Bass (Come Early Morning), Julie Buck, Shruti Ganguly, Vince Jolivette

Prediction: Outside chance for a New Frontier showing, with SXSW programmers in a better position to sway the filmmaker like they did with last year’s showing of Tar.

U.S. Distributor: Rights Available

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