James Franco (127 Hours, Rise of the Planet of the Apes) has joined Jason Statham (Killer Elite, Safe) in the cast of Millennium Films’ latest action-thriller Homefront, which has been written by Statham’s fellow Expendable Sylvester Stallone and is set to be directed by Gary Fleder, whose previous credits include Kiss the Girls (1997), Don’t Say a Word (2001), Runaway Jury (2003).
According to Variety, Homefront “follows Phil Broker (Statham), an ex-DEA agent who moves his family to a quiet town hoping to escape his past. However, he finds the town to be overrun with violence, drug traffickers and an evil meth magnate named Gator (Franco). To save his endangered family, retribution is now the only thing Broker seeks.”
Homefront marks Franco’s third upcoming feature for Millennium, with the Spider-Man star also set to appear in true crime thriller The Iceman, as well as portraying Playboy founder Hugh Heffner alongside Amanda Seyfried’s Linda Lovelace in the biopic Lovelace. Meanwhile Jason Statham will join Stallone on screen this month in the action sequel The Expendables 2, which opens in the UK on August 16th.
