Jimmy Franco's Poetic Flair

The ever eclectic James Franco is working on two separate movies that are based on collections of poetry that have students from the actor's film class involved says Variety.

Each student directed a short film based on an individual poem, segments have then been woven into cohesive, feature-length narratives.

Franco Mila Kunis and Jessica Chastain play roles in "Tar" which is based on the 1983 book
of poems by Pulitzer Prize winner CK Williams. This film has already wrapped and could premiere later this year.

Franco, Olivia Wilde, Chloe Sevigny and Whoopi Goldberg star in the second film "Black Dog, Red Dog" based on the 1984 book of poems by Stephen Dobyns. That film is still being edited.