James Franco gets a few jibes about being gay which he denies. Co-directing new gay erotic movie Interior Leather Bar won’t help him so.
by Genna Patterson
Based on a ‘lost’ 40 minutes from the 1980 Al Pacino movie Cruising, Interior Leather Bar shows some scenes of actual gay sex – something cut from the original in order to get an ‘R’ rating instead of ‘X’.
Franco tried to buy the rights to the movie but couldn’t get them so instead has focused on unreleased footage from the movie and titled it differently.
The original Cruising featured Al Pacino, a cop in New York who goes undercover to catch a serial killer who targets gay men in S&M situations.
The movie will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival this month. Franco co-directed the piece with Travis Mathews, who also wrote the script.
The movie took just two days to shoot, but two months to edit. Its pretty certain to have the highest rating possible due to the sexual nature of some scenes.
If Franco was trying to quench the gay rumour, making Interior Leather Bar certainly will only add fuel to the fire.
Or maybe he’s a smart marketer, knowing that the movie will draw in crowds, ready to question his sexuality.
Check out the trailer featuring the making of the movie.
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