News broke last week that James Franco was set to star in his first superhero movie (since Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man) as Jamie Madrox, aka Multiple Man, in a film of the same name. The film is set in the X-Men universe with their X-guru Simon Kinberg behind the project, and news reaches us today that the movie is set for a hard-R rating, very much like other X-Men-based movies Deadpool and Logan, both of which have done very well for 20th Century Fox. The actor had the following to say to The Hollywood Reporter about the Multiple Man rating and the project in general. Read on.
Multiple Man Rating Set For Hard-R
“Our bottom line MO is, how can we push this into new ground? A little bit, but still make it entertaining? [But] what I love about what Simon Kinberg and Fox and the X-Men people have done with Deadpool and Logan — it took a while to get there, maybe 10 years — but they are going to go hard R. And we’re going to take this superhero thing and really just push it into a new genre. So we’re working with Simon Kinberg on an X-Men property.”
Wow, we’re so in.
Related: The Disaster Artist review
Franco has had quite a 2017. He got rave reviews for his dual performance (and directing duties) on the HBO drama The Deuce and is set to wow audiences with The Disaster Artist, which opens in U.S. cinemas this weekend as well as on selected UK screens (it opens wide here next week).
The Deuce has been given the green-light for a second season, something that is sure to keep Franco busy in the first part of 2018.
There’s no timescale for Multiple Man but click on over to our announcement article for more info.
