Last time James Franco and Harmony Korine got together, they shot a film where James Franco BMX fights a bunch of naked gangster chicks (see above). If you’ll remember, that was for the same art show where Franco carved “BRAD RENFRO” into his arm. Now Variety says Franco and Korine are teaming up again for a film called “Spring Breakers,” starring Emma Roberts, Vanessa Hudgens, and Selena Gomez. That’s right, the queens of the Disney channel and the guy who did Trash Humpers. This positively reeks of dicknosery.

“Spring Breakers,” tells the story of four college girls who rob a restaurant to pay for their trip to the beach.
Roberts would play a Southerner who feeds off danger, while Gomez would play a religious girl. The rest of the group would include Hudgens [thanks, brilliant deduction there, Variety -Ed.]. Franco will co-star as a drug and arms dealer who bails them out of jail. [via Variety - Thanks to Larry for the tip]

The trip goes from bad to worse when Roberts falls in with a mysterious gay clown with cerebral palsy, and Gomez’s faith is tested by a botched abortion that leaves her addicted to heroin. Then, just when you least expect it…. DICKNOSE!

(*Vanessa Hudgens shoves Spaghettios up her vagina as a comment on consumerism, James Franco flies off in biplane cackling wildly, the bullwhip up his ass fluttering heroically in the breeze*)

"Dicknose."

James Franco is a great actor, but what I love about him is that he’s basically a human slam-poem, a living bundle of ambitious, artistic provocations such that when he tells an interviewer something like that his parents call him “Ted” growing up, the interviewer requires no explanation and asks no follow up. It’s James Franco. Why wouldn’t his parents call him Ted?  Anyway, remember that naked-chick-gang fight Franco was filming with Harmony Korine?  Today the LA Times has more information on it. It was part of an exhibit called “Rebel” at the Venice Biennale, paying homage to the 1955 classic Rebel Without a Cause. Of course! It’s all making sense now.

Korine makes his own piece reinterpreting the classic switchblade fight scene in the original  movie with machetes wielded by two [naked] female gangs instead.

That was Harmony Korine’s contribution.  As for Franco’s…

Franco, who had a hand in the other artists’ projects, also made work for this show in homage to the actor Brad Renfro, who died in 2008 at age 25 of a heroin overdose. He had Renfro’s name carved into his right arm with a switchblade, documenting the carving in photography and film. (The carving itself could be seen as one of the show’s more permanent artworks.) [LATimes]

And flesh wounds are more permanent than video because… you know what?  Nevermind.  It’s just a shame none of the goth chicks I went to high school with realized what brilliant artists they were when they were carving “Kurt Cobain” into their arms.  I guess it takes a private school to build that kind of self-esteem.  In related news, I’ll be wearing my “RIP JONATHAN BRANDIS” t-shirt with the hangman stick figure on it while masturbating into a tortoise shell at my local Wiccan New Year’s Eve Po-Mo Festival, as a comment on primitivist overtones in Apocalypse Now.  The director’s cut, anyway.

Back in February, we heard about Harmony Korine’s plan to team up with James Franco on a piece of “violent video art” that would hopefully feature a real knife fight between gang members.  A few weeks ago, we heard a little more about the project by way the above picture, featuring James Franco looking unimpressed while being menaced by a gang of angry naked street hoochies.  Today we’ve got some new video from the set.

Set to Notorious B.I.G.‘s “Dead Wrong” the brief segment is filmed by Franco himself as he rides around filming what we presume is location for the shot. Yeah, it’s grainy iPhone video but look closely…those kids on bikes are all wearing Tupac t-shirts and the music selection isn’t random. Are Franco and Korine cooking up their own twisted version of the Tupac vs. Biggie battles of the ‘90s? [ThePlaylist]

You can watch the video below, and although it doesn’t reveal much, and I still can’t tell what’s on Franco’s shirt (oh please be a picture of Franco), there are some gangster-looking (by which I mean non-white) people riding around on BMX bikes with huge machetes.  And lest you think the irony of someone named “Harmony” trying to incite a violent knife battle is lost on them, fear not. I’m sure the irony has already been recognized, savored, AND dicknosed.

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Remember how James Franco was supposed to be working on a gang fight movie with Harmony Korine? Well apparently one of the gangs is made up of naked chicks. Two things: I hope that’s a picture of himself on the shirt.  And two, I hope those pole things he’s holding are instruments of pleasure. |animal via Buzzfeed {both NSFW}|

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My plan to get a PhD in James Franco studies from James Franco University is looking less attractive today after Franco was the second boredest guy at the Oscars last night (behind Tom Hanks).  But there’s news to cover and JAMES FRANCO NEEDS ATTENTION, DAMMIT!  The latest is that he’s supposedly working with batsh*t filmmaker Harmony Korine (Kids, Gummo) on a piece of “violent video art” that they hope will climax in a real knife fight between rival LA gangs.  A knife fight, eh?  Seems like it might be a step back for a guy who’s already watched gay dudes sword fight.

Our source said, “They are looking to film two actual street gangs doing a fight scene. [which they hope will climax in a gory battle at an iconic location such as the Griffith Observatory.] The twist is they want the two gangs to fight, using real knives. The production team is panicked that they’ll end up with blood, injuries and potentially dead bodies on set.”

Korine had been working on a video called “Fight Harm,” filmed by illusionist David Blaine, which included Korine engaging strangers in street fights in New York. But he was hospitalized after six fights and forced to abandon the project. He said in 2000, “I got a lot of bones broken, I was thrown in prison and I had really bad court costs.”

A Korine rep told us, “I can confirm that there is indeed a piece of video art in the works involving gang fights by James and Harmony,” but declined to comment further. [NYPost]

“You say your name’s ‘Harmony’?  That’s an interesting name, what do you do?”

“Fight strangers, mostly.”

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