Both are adaptations of novels - William Faulkner's 1930 family drama As I Lay Dying, and Cormac McCarthy's 1985 semi-apocalyptic Western "Blood Meridian:"-- both of the pics will use scripts that Franco wrote himself.
The Faulkner film would come first and could begin shooting as early as this Summer, while "Blood Meridian" would be shot sometime in 2012.
Franco also shot a test sequence of a scene from 'Meridian' with Mark Pellegrino, Scott Glenn, Luke Perry and his brother Dave Franco starring in it in order to convince producer Scott Rudin to let him call the shots on the project. Rudin reportedly loved the scene.
Franco just wrapped directing duties on "The Broken Tower" a biopic of poet Hart Crane
If his directing efforts are any good--it's official Franco can do it all
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