James Franco, currently starring in Broadway’s “Of Mice and Men,” is set to star in an upcoming movie about Michael Glatze, a gay activist who renounced his homosexuality after turning to religion following a health scare.
The $3.5 million film is being produced by Gus Van Sant and is set to start shooting in New York in July.
Franco has played several gay men, including a role opposite Sean Penn in Van Sant’s “Milk” and Allen Ginsberg in “Howl.”