(BroBible)
James Franco has landed his first major Hollywood role since being canceled in 2018 following sexual misconduct allegations. The role is in a Rambo prequel.
Six years. Six whole years of James Franco sitting in Hollywood purgatory and the sentence is over because someone needed a Rambo prequel made.
The man is back. Fully, officially, totally back. Every outlet that covered his cancellation is now covering his resurrection and nobody is even pretending the math doesn’t add up perfectly. AP called it. Variety called it. Your aunt who was briefly very angry about this in 2018 has moved on to being angry about something else entirely.
This is how Hollywood cancellations work and I don’t know why anyone acts shocked anymore. You sit out for a stretch roughly equivalent to an NBA suspension for a flagrant foul, then someone needs a guy who can look brooding and tortured in a jungle, and suddenly the whole thing evaporates. Not forgiven. Not forgotten. Just quietly filed under nobody’s problem anymore.
A RAMBO PREQUEL. That’s the vehicle. Not a prestige drama where he atones through acting. Not an indie film about redemption. A Rambo prequel. Sylvester Stallone’s Rambo, the franchise about a guy who solves his problems with knives and explosions, is how James Franco re-enters society.
SHOWBIZ BABY!
