The unpredictability with this filmmaker-actor is that he has got plenty of projects stoking the fire and we never know which item might push forth next. Prolific, inexhaustible, enervating and stoic with literature’s greats, James Franco‘s selected career path merits its own NYC course of its own. Franco could probably fit it in his schedule and teach it. After tending to the rabbits on Broadways’ Of Mice and Men, it’s Steinbeck follow in the footsteps of Cormac McCarthy and William Faulkner as book to film interests. Production began on In Dubious Battle at the beginning of the year. Mostly shot in Atlanta, this amassed a crew of players comprised of Analeigh Tipton, Josh Hutcherson, Selena Gomez, Bryan Cranston, Vincent D’Onofrio, Ashley Greene, Nat Wolff, Ed Harris, Duvall, Zach Braff, Austin Stowell, Keegan Allen, Darin Cooper, Ahna O’Reilly, John Savage, Beth Grant, Scott Haze and of course Franco himself. So this film is ready, but so are about five other with him as director.
Gist: Based on John Steinbeck’s 1936 film and adapted Matt Rager, this gets caught up in the labor movement for fruit workers in California during the 1930s.
Production Co./Producers: Rabbit Bandini Productions’ James Franco and Vince Jolivette, AMBI Pictures’ Andrea Iervolino (Rupture), That’s Hollywood Pictures Productions’ Ron Singer and Scott Reed (I Am Michael) and Iris Torres’ (Bukowski).
Prediction: Premieres section.
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available. TBD (domestic). TBD (international)
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