Following the critical acclaim Franco received for The Disaster Artist in 2017, Zeroville is the latest in a series of box office bombs for Franco, including horror movie The Vault and sci-fi thriller Kin.
The actor-writer-director’s adaptation of Steve Erickson’s 2007 book on 70s Hollywood stars Megan Fox, Seth Rogen and Will Ferrell.
The Guardian, meanwhile, asked “is this the worst film of 2019?” and called it a work of “staggering incompetence”.
Zeroville has not gone down well with critics, scoring just 27 per cent on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes.