Franco options The Adderall Diaries

It is all over the internets that Spiderman alum and James Dean-esque  Franco has optioned Stephen Elliott's ADHD driven book "The Adderall Diaries". /film is reporting that he may even write the adaptation, direct and star in the final product.

As fractured as the book is, the adaption is going to be a tough write. Not sure Franco is the man to do it, but his career has had touches of genius in between the tons of commercial plebeian crap he has decided to waste his time in. That being said, 127 Hours is getting tons of good press and may be worth the time.

127 Hours Trailer

For those of you that have not experienced the madness that is "The Adderall Diaries" Scott Indrisek seems to have captured the voice perfectly.

In a single rotund paragraph, Elliott can ping-pong between webcam sex, financial anxiety, hypothetical affairs with college students and murder confessions. Everything reminds the memoirist of something else, something to do with that irrepressible “I.”

And although not really mainstream fodder, an adaptation would do well in art houses across the country....either that or Franco will have to chop up the novel and turn it into something it is not.

James Franco at IMDB
Stephen Elliot at Wiki, Amazon, Home page