James Franco Taking Avant-Garde Three's Company to Sundance

November means many things to many people, but to me, it's an excuse to get excited for Sundance! Wooo! Movies! Altitude sickness! And right on cue, the festival has sent along word of its selections for the 2011 New Frontier program -- its repository of multimedia installations, avant-garde experiments and actorly diversions into visual art. And a year after Joseph Gordon-Levitt raised the stakes on Main Street, here comes James Franco and his riff on '70s TV to blow everyone out of the water.

It goes like this:

Three's Company: The Drama

James Franco

Three's Company: The Drama is a multi-media examination of the classic '70s sit-com. Television has undoubtedly shaped our world: our increased exposure to dramatic entertainment, the shapes of our houses, the shape of the time in our day. In this piece James Franco hopes to pull television from the box and view it from "a slightly oblique perspective."

Whatever -- just as long as there's a cast reunion and some exegetical treatment of the script bible (face it: Jack Tripper is Jesus, and don't get even get me started on Mr. Furley), this is guaranteed to be the most interesting thing New Frontier has ever offered. More to come in January!

· New Frontier 2011 [Sundance Film Festival]