After the mixed results of the aforementioned Why Him?, the first trailer for In Dubious Battle (via Vulture) swings Franco right back to serious work.
James Franco may not be an easy man to figure out, but one thing is for sure: few filmmakers have established quite the network of actors as Franco has.
For every The Night Before, there seems to be an As I Lay Dying; for every Why Him?, a Child of God.
In that vein, Franco’s adaptation follows a group of political activists as they try to rally local fruit laborers to fight against the local landowners.