James Franco Talks AS I LAY DYING and Blood Meridian
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However, later in the day, Blood Meridian producer Scott Rudin to question the original report. Franco confirms the original report, saying he hopes to direct two films, shot with As I Lay Dying in the summer and then Blood Meridian goes before cameras sometime in 2012.Now, the SE has spoken directly to Franco in the field. Yesterday it was reported that James Franco was looking to direct adaptations of William Faulkner As I Lay Dying and Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy.
Hit the jump for what Franco had to say about his approach to the difficult narrative structure of As I Lay Dying and the way he won over Rudin on Blood Meridian.
This is what Franco told EW about his approach to As I Lay Dying and its multiple narrators (one died):
“You want to capture the tone, but you can not work exactly the same way. But to be fair I have to change some things for the movie “may fall on the heads of the characters and give them inner voice for a while, but it has to be more fluid because the films just work differently than books. Do not think it will feel the same if the gap as rigidly as the book, like the titles that say” Cash “and then you’re in cash . Movies, somehow because they deal in images, are more concrete. I want to be faithful to the book – my focus is always faithful in many ways -.
How did it go?As Blood Meridian, Franco tried to enter the race with Ridley Scott (who has been circling the project for years) by shooting a scene from the novel with the help of Scott Glenn, Luke Perry, Dave Franco, brother , and Mark Pellegrino (Jacob’s Lost).
Do not do anything with it until I show this to you. So I called him and said:” I’m thinking of doing this. “And I showed it to him and he loved it.Do you just wait? It was like, why give it to me when Ridley Scott do not? You do not have to give me money, you can finance this film. “We’ve done that, as a way to convince Scott Rudin to give us rights.
