Hey guys! Horrorella here...
James Franco’s adaptation of Steve Erickson’s novel Zeroville is starting production, and has already put together a pretty sweet cast.
The story follows a loner cinephile who journeys to Hollywood in the late 1960s, falling in with some of the biggest players of the day. Here’s the description via Amazon:
Zeroville is a unique love letter to film. It centers on the story of Vikar, a young architecture student so enthralled with the movies that his friends call him “cinéautistic.” With an intensely religious childhood behind him, and tattoos of Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift on his head, he arrives in Hollywood where he’s mistaken for a member of the Charles Manson “family” and eventually scores a job as a film editor. Vikar discovers the frames of a secret film within the reels of every movie ever made, and sets about splicing them together—an undertaking that takes on frightening theological dimensions.
Franco will direct and star in the film, and Screen Daily has recently announced some members of the supporting cast. Among them are Seth Rogen, Will Ferrell, Megan Fox, Danny McBride, Craig Robinson, Dave Franco, Joey King and Horatio Sanz.
Rogen will be portraying a character understood to be a young John Milius. He is referred to only as Viking Man, but with a description of “eccentric, cigar-chomping, surf-hippy” the connection is pretty evident.
Additionally, we know that Fox has been casted as Soledad, a femme-fatale character, Weaver will take the role of a film editor who also happens to serve as a friend and mentor to Vikar, and McBride has been cast as a “sinister financier.”
The cast is strong, and certainly reliable. Franco has worked with many of these actors on multiple occasions, and the chemistry is always solid.
Having not read the book, I’m not sure how exactly these personalities match with what was on paper, or how well they will embody the characters and the tone of the novel. What do you guys think? Does this casting make sense? Or are you expecting a different variation from the source material?
