James Franco Wants to Knock On Your Door

It looks like this weekend's SNL spoof that had James Franco taking up every job from coat-check to rabbi to cuecard assistant wasn't that far off from the truth.  He really will do just about anything, including possibly adapting a 70s sitcom into a feature film.

TV Guide is reporting that Franco is seriously considering developing a feature film and off-Broadway play of the TV comedy Three's Company.  The Oscar nominee (and co-host) turned heads at the Sundance Film Festival last month when he hosted a 70s theme party to introduce his short film reenactment of a Three's Company episode.  The film featured Franco as Jack Tripper (the role immortalized by the late great John Ritter), his assistant as Jack's roommate Janet, and a bearded man as the ditzy other roommate, Chrissy.  

Not sure how that must have looked, but it was apparently good enough for the estate of the show to start talking to Franco about developing a full-length film/play.  Plays of popular sitcoms have been done before, with reenactments of The Golden Girls and The Brady Bunch both having successful off-Broadway runs, and the material in Three's Company, which was about the shenanigans between three single friends sharing an apartment in Los Angeles in the 1970s...could work.  The reruns of the show are still pretty damn hilarious.

But a movie?  Wow.  Never saw that coming.  And we probably won't either, at least not for awhile.  I think the bigger question is:  will the landlords be The Ropers or Mr. Furley?