In case you didn’t know, James Franco makes like 4,739,901 movies per year. He’s currently promoting a movie called Goat with gay-baiter, Nick Jonas, and is going full gay-bait in a movie about gay porn, called King Cobra.
After heading over to IMDB, it turns out that James Franco is actually in like ten movies this year, but Goat and King Cobra are getting the most buzz. The sad thing is, I actually kind of really want to see them both.
In case you missed the trailer, King Cobra, is about the real-life murder of a gay porn producer, who, in the movie, is played by Christian Slater, who I love seeing get work! Here’s the preview, so have a watch and I’ll fill you in on my thoughts:
First of all, is anyone else weirded out by how well Christian Slater and James Franco play predatory gays?
Second, the guy who plays the big break out porn star they’re both vying for in the film, Garrett Clayton, actually got his big break out role in this Disney Channel movie, Teen Beach Movie, just a couple of years back. He also starred in the sequel which came out just last year.
Now, I have two feelings about this: 1) Is it becoming like common fodder for Disney stars to do controversial movies where James Franco sexually preys on them so they can break away from their squeaky clean image? (Spring Breakers, anyone?), and 2) when I watched the Teen Beach Movies, which I did, I LITERALLY thought when I saw Garrett Clayton and watched him act that he looked JUST LIKE a gay porn star. Like 100% that is what I thought. And now he’s actually playing a gay porn star?! Krysta, you’ve done it again!
Seriously, it makes total sense that he went from Disney tv movies to playing a gay porn star, because he 100% looks like the guy they would cast to play Zac Efron’s character in the gay porn parody of High School Musical, AM I RIGHT?!
Anyway, if you want to see James Franco play a shady predatory gay, King Cobra opens October 21st.