James Franco: Actor, Writer, Host, Drag Queen...Now Director?

By Jett Wells Posted Jan 3rd 2011 06:00PM

James Franco is either on a mission to become pop culture's most ubiquitous Renaissance man or he's shoring up his resume to run for president. He's worn lipstick for a magazine cover, written scripts, will host the 83rd Academy Awards, is currently working on his PhD and, of course, we know him best as an actor, but now he's expanding his CV yet again.

According to Roger Friedman at Showbiz 411, Franco is slated to write and direct two major adaptive films -- William Faulkner's 'As I Lay Dying' and Cormac McCarthy's 'Blood Meridian.' To top it off, he plans to do all of this while he's still studying at Yale University and Rhode Island School of Design.

Friedman says Franco is hoping to start 'As I Lay Dying' next spring, while work on 'Blood Meridean' would begin sometime in 2012.

Neither project would be Franco's directorial debut; he just completed an indie project about storied poet Hart Crane, titled 'The Broken Tower.' He also made a project film related to the 1980s sitcom 'Three's Company,' which he's presenting at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival.

Later this summer, we expect to hear about his ambitions to shoot a movie on the moon with James Cameron.

Tags: Cormac McCarthy, James Franco, William Faulkner

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Monday 03 January

By henry

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James is the new James Dean.
Even more talented.
Under rated. he should be getting the "johnny Depp" roles.
Hollywood gives the good roles to a few.

By stu

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& he's hotter than those 2.

By Jane

I like James Franco, but he's getting a little conceited. He has a right to I guess, but I hope his head doesn't swell too much, he'll lose that appeal.

By Janice

You said it right--

By Nico Toscani

Great, from overrated actor to overrated director. Can't wait...

By fiona

He should stick with what he did best...the drag thing.

By joan

I watched James Franco be interviewed on Inside the Actors Studio, and he is a talented actor, but he is really an oddball. He left me thinking he was strange. I wish him well, but I now have trouble watching him in anything..

By ary

yes, I know what you mean; there is something strange about him. Cute but distant,and that makes him unreachable and cold, without empathy. If he wasn't an actor, he'd be a murderer or something without conscience. I don't like him.

And overrated writer too. His book stinks. If it weren't for his so-called star power, he would have never been published. He belongs with Lauren Conrad, Lisa Rinna, Nicole Richie, and all those other great literary no-talents.

Tuesday 04 January

By Andy

Most actors are a little wierd. You have to be to be in the business.

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