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Great Casting or Best Casting? James Franco to Play Pick-Up Artist Mystery in The Game

Great Casting or Best Casting? James Franco to Play Pick-Up Artist Mystery in The Game

Happy Friday! As if heading into the weekend wasn't already wonderful enough, here comes a casting move that oughta keep you tickled for days: According to The Hollywood Reporter, James Franco is in talks to star in Brian Koppelman and David Levien's The Game, adapted from Neil Strauss's dating how-to bestseller, in the role of famed, instantly unforgettable pick-up master Mystery. Hollywood can pretty much drop the mic as Friday closes out, because no other casting move this week can possibly top this.
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Solitary Man, Girlfriend Experience Duo to Adapt Neil Strauss's Pick-up Tome The Game

Solitary Man, Girlfriend Experience Duo to Adapt Neil Strauss's Pick-up Tome The Game

According to The Hollywood Reporter, MGM will team up with A Solitary Man writer Brian Koppelman and director David Levien to bring Neil Strauss's dating how-to book The Game to the big screen. Others have tried before to make Strauss's best-selling pick-up tome into a film, but maybe Koppelman and Levien are the right guys for the job; after all, they gave Michael Douglas a great vehicle playing a skeevy womanizer in A Solitary Man. Maybe they can do the same for magician-turned-pick-up artist Mystery?

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