Sun, 27 July 2008 23:50:16 ET
The 'Spider-Man' antagonist actor will be Allen Ginsberg in the next documentary movie.
, the actor who played Harry Osborne in "
Spider-Man", has told MTV that he will appear in a new documentary movie titled "Howl". "It's by a two time Oscar Award winner named Rob Epstein, he's actually a documentary film director," Franco said of the project.
Because the film is a documentary, so Franco will play the young beat hippie/poet in 1950s. "So I'm gonna play the young Allen Ginsberg, the days before he went bald and gained weight. The early Howl days," he said.
Franco admitted that he has been a fan of the character, saying "Oh certainly. I've certainly read 'Howl'. I was very into the beatniks when I was in high school, and I still am. So I certainly have read Howl many times."
"Howl" is Ginsberg's most famous poem, which was written in the Beat Generation. It lifts the theme of an attack that he saw as the destructive forces of materialism and conformity in the United States at the time. This poetry reveals much about his biography, his relationship to other members of the Beat Generation, and his own political views.
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