Homefront
As a commentary on the whirlwind of sound and fury that is life, a tale mumbled by an idiot, James Franco stars in Homefront, an action thriller scripted by Sylvester Stallone, in which James Franco toys with the concept of actually being a threat to Jason Statham. In this pulse-pounding exegesis, Franco’s character, a meth dealer named “Gator,” will explore and question the very archetype of the action movie villain, whom convention dictates is typically intimidating, and poses believable danger to the film’s hero. By subverting those audience expectations, Franco—who stalks Statham’s retired DEA agent because of a playground squabble between their kids, thus parodying the innate and petty nature of human conflict—hopes to leave them questioning what the action movie genre says about that conflict, and whether conflict itself is an artificial construct.