James Franco has confirmed the rumours of his commitment to a movie based on the X-Men character Multiple Man.
The character has appeared on screen before, as a minor player in the 2006 film X-Men: The Last Stand, in which he was portrayed by Eric Dane.
Franco’s version, though, appears to be a very different prospect. Taking cues from edgier properties such as Wolverine and Deadpool, the Academy Award nominee is planning a comic book movie aimed very much at an older crowd. He told The Hollywood Reporter:
“Our bottom line MO is, how can we push this into new ground? A little bit, but still make it entertaining? …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.
