James Franco Film ”Cruising” Had to Cut The Hardcore

 

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James Franco is playing gay…again!

The Oscar-nominated actor costars in a new art project inspired by Cruising, directorWilliam Friedkin's controversial 1980 film about a New York cop (Al Pacino) who is hunting for a serial killer in the city's gay S/M subculture.

James Franco's Cruising focuses on 40 minutes of sexually graphic footage that Friedkin had to cut in order to secure an R rating.  

"We'll have a couple of versions," Franco's director Travis Mathews says in a new interview with the Advocate. "One that is dirty and one that is dirtier. But neither ventures into hardcore territory."

But Mathews also told Indiewire, "[Franco] knew he wanted real gay sex in it."

A still from the project shows a sweaty Franco wearing a tank top while dancing with another man in a leather harness. Behind them are other shirtless men, including one in just a jockstrap. 

Mathews has put the kibosh on rumors that Franco goes full frontal. "That will not be happening," he said. "It's an art film. He makes a lot of art films. He makes a lot of big studio films. This is one of his art films."

A cut of the movie will premiere in New York during Fashion Week before a feature-length version hits the film festival circuit next year

Mathews said Franco's idea for the film happened after he couldn't get the rights to remake the original Cruising.

by Marc Malkin  

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