Super hottie James Franco is set to rejoin his Pineapple Express co-star Danny McBride in the new Universal Pictures comedy “Your Highness”.
Franco will play the heroic brother of lazy prince (McBride) on the quest to save his father's kingdom. When an evil wizard casts a spell on their father and kidnaps the older prince's fiancee, they're forced to go on a quest to save their family and the kingdom.
Danny co-wrote the script for the Universal Pictures production with Ben Best and directed by David Gordon Green.
Other projects on the board for Franco are Christopher Nolan's sci-fi thriller "Inception", but due to scheduling conflicts Franco had to pass on the project. He's also been offered a key role opposite Julia Roberts in "Eat Pray Love" for Sony Pictures.
James, 30, who starred opposite Sean Penn in the Oscar-winning Milk, is currently living in NYC where he is studying for a Master of Fine Arts degree in Writing at Columbia University and is also taking filmmaking classes at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.
He is currently filming 'Howl' in the city, one of two biopics about the writer Allen Ginsberg. He plays the poet and philosopher and has also been spotted on set doing some work behind the camera.
'Highness' is due to begin shooting on July 20 in Belfast.