James Franco and Jason Statham might not seem like obvious co-stars, but then Franco never likes to do the expected. With Homefront he not only has an unexpected co-star, but he get to work from a script by Sylvester Stallone, and play the extremely nasty bad guy.
The movie is about Phil Broker (Statham), a former DEA agent who moves his family to a quiet town to escape his past. However, he discovers the town is overrun by a dangerous meth distributor named Gator (James Franco).
While Stallone wrote the script, based on Chuck Logan’s novel, he neither stars not directs the film. The film’s due out in late November in the US and December 6th in the UK. Take a look at the new, dramatic red-band trailer above. [Read more…]
Winona Ryder has joined Jason Statham and James Franco in the cast of Homefront for director Gary Fleder, who will be working from a script by none other that Sylvester Stallone (it isn’t known if he’ll be starring in the film himself), according to 
If you asked most people who’d they’d expect to pair up for a movie, few people would say James Franco and Jason Statham – especially working from a script by Sylvester Stallone. However perhaps it shouldn’t be the surprising, as Franco seems to make it his mission in life to confound expectations.