It’s not a film festival without James Franco unveiling a short film, book of poetry, feature effort, art installation or something, and so the polymath is rolling into Venice with "The Sound And The Fury." Yep, the work of William Faulkner is getting the Franco treatment, again, and the first clip is here to give you a sampling of how it all turns out.
Joey King, Tim Blake Nelson, Ahna O’Reilly, Seth Rogen, Danny McBride, Scott Haze, Jon Hamm and Franco himself all appear in this saga about the lives and intrigues of the southern Compson family, who find themselves in decline. This clip reveals that Franco has dropped the split-screen stylization of his previous Faulkner effort, "As I Lay Dying," and as a result, the drama appears more direct and intense. Overall, it seems more accomplished than that the previous effort too, so we’re curious to see if Franco nailed it this time out.
Our review will be along soon, but until then, watch below. No release date yet for this one, but it will also screen at TIFF. [Deadline]
James Franco playing a retard?, he should really nail it this time!
polymath: a person whose expertise ranges a significant number of different subject areas; or a person of great learning in several fields of study. franco is neither. also, The Sound and the Fury is not a saga. it's not even a mock saga or mock epic, ala Joyce's Ulysses.
sigh. this site, man… hire someone who at least knows what they're talking about and not pretending to be writers.
And when this flops, as all his other efforts have, will you run a story about how he's such a loser? About how his films don't get wide distribution and fail to attract an audience, over and over? Or will you continue to let your bias show?
His many bombs: As I Lay Dying, Palo Alto, Sal, Lovelace, Howl, etc. It's a good thing he's friends with Seth Rogan or he's never be in a hit.