Gift Guide: Soon To Be a Major Motion Picture by James Franco...

From Movieline's 2010 Gift Guide

This fall The Adderall Diaries, Stephen Elliott's brilliant, propulsive mixture of memoir, manifesto and true crime was released in paperback just as James Franco bought the film rights, promising to write, direct, and star in the film himself.

Quick-thinking cat that Steve is (full disclosure: he is a close friend), he asked the now notoriously over-extended Franco if they might collaborate on the screenplay, and Franco agreed. Notes from the front: "The movie's going to be pretty different from the book," Steve told me. "No voice-over." The latter is a bold choice for a free-ranging, first-person book that is very much bound to its searching, singular voice. Steve is currently about halfway through a first draft, and noted that if the final script resembles it, there is full-frontal Franco in our collective future. Bless him.

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