Money can buy justice and cancel culture doesn’t work and James Franco being cast in Mace is here to prove it.
James Franco has not only been cast in Mace, but he will also be starring in the lead and titular role. The movie will be directed by Jon Amiel.
A summary of the movie, outlined by Deadline, goes as follows:
The title, which is the first production from Meyers Media Group, follows the story of two very different kinds of cops. Mace (Franco) is a veteran officer, corrupt and dangerously unhinged, while Virgin Woods is a young rookie who believes that he can change the system that fosters cops like Mace from within. Inspired by the racial injustice on the streets of America, Woods refuses to be bullied and pits his principles against the amoral Mace, risking everything he believes in to stop Mace from destroying the city when Mace unleashes a gang war to cover up his crimes.
In a lawsuit filed in October 2019 in Los Angeles County Superior Court, two former students of the now-defunct acting school Studio 4 alleged that James Franco and his partners subjected them to sexually exploitative auditions and film shoots.
The students, Sarah Tither-Kaplan and Toni Gaal, say in the lawsuit that James Franco and his partners “engaged in widespread inappropriate and sexually charged behavior towards female students by sexualizing their power as a teacher and an employer by dangling the opportunity for roles in their projects.”
The suit outlines that these actions “led to an environment of harassment and sexual exploitation both in and out of the class.”
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The lawsuit details that Franco pressured Studio 4 students to perform in increasingly explicit filmed sex scenes in an “orgy type setting” in a master class on sex scenes. The lessons allegedly ignored film-industry guidelines on how actors should be treated whilst filming a nude scene.
The suit claims that students were denied the protections of nudity riders, and the class preyed upon “often young and inexperienced females” who “were routinely pressured to engage in simulated sex acts that went far beyond the standards in the industry.”
As Deadline report, a court filing outlines that the plaintiffs agreed to drop their individual claims under the agreement settlement.
