Singer-actress
Selena
Gomez
and
James
Franco
are
set
to
star
together
again
on
the
big
screen.
After
Spring
Breakers,
Gomez
and
Franco
will
be
seen
in
'In
Dubious
Battle'.
James
Franco
will
put
on
the
director's
hat
for
this
movie
and,
Ed
Harris,
Bryan
Cranston,
Robert
Duvall,
Vincent
D'Onofrio
and
Danny
McBride
are
also
among
the
cast
members
in
the
movie.
Franco,
39,
and
Gomez
previously
worked
together
in
'Spring
Breakers'.
The
'I
Am
Michael'
star
collaborated
with
McBride
in
2013's
'This
Is
the
End'
and
2011's
'Your
Highness'.
'In
Dubious
Battle'
by
John
Steinbeck,
was
published
in
1936,
and
tells
the
story
of
a
man
who
organises
a
strike
by
fruit
pickers
in
Southern
California
in
the
1930s.
Matt
Rager
('As
I
Lay
Dying')
adapted
the
novel
for
the
screenplay.
Filming
will
start
in
March.
According
to
the
press
release,
In
Dubious
Battle
is
"set
in
a
fictionalized
valley
in
California"
and
"explores
themes
Steinbeck
continued
to
develop:
group
behavior,
social
injustice,
man's
inhumanity
to
man-all
themes
which
continue
to
be
relevant
today.
Franco
is
already
familiar
with
Steinback's
works.
Previously,
he
made
his
Broadway
debut
with
Broadway
revival
of
Steinbeck's
'Of
Mice
and
Men'.
"A
labor
conflict
between
migrant
apple
pickers
and
the
local
growers'
association
is
the
backdrop
against
which
Jim
Nolan
(Franco)
becomes
involved
in
the
labor
movement
and
rapidly
matures
as
he
learns
what
it
means
to
do
organizational
fieldwork."
Selena
is
really
busy
these
days
as
the
singer
turned
actress
has
already
started
shooting
her
next
film,
The
Revised
Fundamentals
of
Caregiving
with
Paul
Rudd.