If you weren't familiar with Mystery (born Erik von Markovik), the expert pick-up artiste whom Strauss learned from to write The Game, well, where do I begin? Co-writer of such helpful tomes as The Mystery Method: How to Get Beautiful Women Into Bed and The Pickup Artist: The New and Improved Art of Seduction, Mystery even dallied in reality television in his 2007 VH1 reality series The Pick-Up Artist, in which he taught clueless schlubs how to cast out their lines and reel in the ladies.
Also? He looks like this:
What? It's called peacocking! How else can a man stand out from the crowd enough to catch a woman's eye?
Anyway, MGM's The Game is produced by Chris and Paul Weitz. And I for one cannot wait to see Franco decked out a la Mystery, soul patch and all.
James Franco in Talks to Star as Pick-Up Artist in 'The Game' [THR]