Almost four years after James Franco’s Zeroville was acquired at the Toronto Film Festival by the now-defunct distributor Alchemy, the film adapted from Steve Erickson’s novel now has a…
at the Toronto Film Festival by the now-defunct distributor Alchemy, the film adapted from Steve Erickson’s novel now has a trailer and a new lease on life. After being tied up in Alchemy’s bankruptcy wranglings, the film directed by and starring Franco along with a strong ensemble wasand now will hit theaters in the U.S. and Canada on September 20.
Franco plays Vikar, a lost soul journeying through Hollywood 1969, a land of myths, beauty and monsters. The studio system is in decay, and a new generation of brash filmmakers are on the rise. With his shaved head marked by a tattoo from his favorite film, 1951’s, Vikar is a bizarre presence even amid the dreamers and players. He finds work first building sets, then as an apprentice editor obsessed with wielding the power of moving images.
As his involvement in the creative process deepens, so does Vikar’s fascination with a tragic screen goddess named Soledad . Together they discover just how hard it is to live in the blurred boundary between reality and illusion.Paul Felton & Ian Olds adapted Erickson’s book, and the pic was produced by Michael Mendelsohn, Vince Jolivette and Caroline Aragon.
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