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| James Franco is set to star and executive produce a porn drama "The Deuce" which was picked up to series by HBO (Publicity photo). |
LOS ANGELES - HBO has picked up James Franco's porn drama "The Deuce" to series. Franco and Maggie Gyllenhaal will star.
The
show will follow the fight to legalize porn and its subsequent rise in
1970s New York City as it also exaimes the wild and seedy side of
midtown Manhattan through the rise of HIV, the violence and upheaval of
the cocaine epidemic and its impact on the industry.
Franco
will play twins, while Gyllenhaal will portray Eileen Merrell, a Times
Square prostitute who goes by “Candy” who’s attracted to the fledgeling
industry.
The show will be
executive produced by David Simon ("Homicide: Life on the Street),
Franco and Gyllenhaal for Simon's Blown Deadline Productions. Simon
wrote the original pilot and will hand over writing duties to Richard
Price known for his episodic work on "The Wire" and the film "Clockers."
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