Friday, January 13, 2012

Franco Snaps Up Mapplethorpe

James Franco is circling to star in a biopic about controversial gay photographer Robert Mapplethorpe says The Hollywood Reporter.



Mapplethorpe created large-scale, highly stylized black and white portraits, photos of flowers and nude men. Its frank homoeroticism caused controversy and arguments over what defines obscene. He died of AIDS in 1989.

The pic titled Mapplethorpe has gotten grants through the ninth annual Tribeca All Access Program.

Documentary helmer Ondi Timoner ("We Live in Public") directs and produces with Nate Dushku, Miles Levy and Eliza Dushku.

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