{"id":39732,"date":"2017-12-04T16:17:53","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T22:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=39732"},"modified":"2017-12-04T16:17:53","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T22:17:53","slug":"james-franco-to-direct-star-in-film-about-poet-shel-silverstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/james-franco-to-direct-star-in-film-about-poet-shel-silverstein\/","title":{"rendered":"James Franco to direct, star in film about poet Shel Silverstein"},"content":{"rendered":"<article id=\"post-1488362\" class=\"loop post-1488362 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-arts-entertainment category-news-opinion category-top-headlines category-united-states tags-shel-silverstein tags-james-franco\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>(JTA) \u2014 Actor and director James Franco will direct and star in a film about children\u2019s book author and poet Shel Silverstein.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_39733\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/James-Franco-GettyImages-880553292-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39733\" class=\"wp-image-39733 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/James-Franco-GettyImages-880553292-1-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/James-Franco-GettyImages-880553292-1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/James-Franco-GettyImages-880553292-1-768x508.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/James-Franco-GettyImages-880553292-1.jpg 878w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/199;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39733\" class=\"wp-image-39733 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/James-Franco-GettyImages-880553292-1-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/James-Franco-GettyImages-880553292-1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/James-Franco-GettyImages-880553292-1-768x508.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/James-Franco-GettyImages-880553292-1.jpg 878w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-39733\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Franco attending the Independent Filmmaker Project\u2019s 27th Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards in New York, Nov. 27, 2017. (Dimitrios Kambouris\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The film, based on the book \u201cA Boy Named Shel,\u201d by Lisa Rogak, will focus on Silverstein\u2019s personal life and professional struggles, Deadline Hollywood first&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/deadline.com\/2017\/12\/james-franco-shel-silverstein-movie-a-boy-named-shel-mwm-studios-wonderland-the-disaster-artist-1202218321\/\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Silverstein, who was born into a Jewish family and grew up in Chicago, is the author of the well-known children\u2019s poetry collections \u201cWhere the Sidewalk Ends\u201d and \u201cThe Light in the Attic,\u201d as well as the children\u2019s book \u201cThe Giving Tree.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also illustrated his books and collections. Silverstein also was a singer-songwriter and screenwriter.<\/p>\n<p>Franco, who is Jewish, is fresh off his latest success, \u201cThe Disaster Artist,\u201d a biographical&nbsp;comedy-drama film that chronicles the making of&nbsp;Tommy Wiseau\u2019s 2003&nbsp;cult film&nbsp;\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Room_(film)\">The Room<\/a>,\u201d a critical flop that went on to become a cult classic. Franco and the film are reported to be in contention for several Oscars this year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"James%20Franco%20to%20direct%2C%20star%20in%20film%20about%20poet%20Shel%20Silverstein\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7139],"tags":[3407,8790,8795,8788,9078],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39732"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39734,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39732\/revisions\/39734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}