THN fave james Franco (wasn’t he great in SPRING BREAKERS?) is all set to headline a new project named THE GARDEN OF LAST DAYS. The film, based on the book by Andre Dubus III, is actually being co-produced by Gerard Butler, along with Danielle Robinson, Alan Siegel, and Hanna Weg, who also adapted and penned the screenplay for the flick.
Dubas also wroted the source material for THE HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG, a novel that was turned into a 2003 film that starred Jennifer Connolly and Ben Kingsley. Here’s the plot description of ‘Garden’ from his official website:
One early September night in Florida, a stripper brings her daughter to work. April’s usual babysitter, Jean, has had a panic attack that has landed her in the hospital. April doesn’t really know anyone else, so she decides it’s best to have her three-year-old daughter close by, watching children’s videos in the office while she works.
April works at the Puma Club for Men. And tonight she has an unusual client, a foreigner both remote and too personal, and free with his money. Lots of it, all cash. His name is Bassam. Meanwhile, another man, AJ, has been thrown out of the club for holding hands with his favorite stripper, and he’s drunk and angry and lonely.
From these explosive elements comes a relentless, raw, searing, passionate, page-turning narrative, a big-hearted and painful novel about sex and parenthood and honor and masculinity. Set in the seamy underside of American life at the moment before the world changed, it juxtaposes lust for domination with hunger for connection, sexual violence with family love. It seizes the reader by the throat with the same psychological tension, depth, and realism that characterized Andre Dubus III’s best-selling House of Sand and Fog—and an even greater sense of the dark and anguished places in the human heart.
Franco can currently be seen as the wizard in OZ, THE GREAT AND POWERFUL, and the aforementioned SPRING BREAKERS, which may contain his, and the, acting performance of the year so far. His directorial debut AS I LAY DYING debuts at the Cannes Film Festival next month.
Source: Deadline
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