James Franco's Experimental 'General Hospital' Mock-umentary To Debut

Think you know James Franco? Why would you? The actor/writer/grad student is constantly defying expectations, and his entry into the Viewpoints section of the 11th Annual Tribeca Film Festival is no exception. Francophrenia (or: Don’t Kill Me, I Know Where the Baby Is), directed by Franco and Ian Olds, was shot backstage on the set of ABC soap opera General Hospital, on which Franco appeared — perplexingly — at the height of his film career.

As it turns out, Franco was up to something even more unusual than a bold career move; he was making an experimental psychological thriller about the paranoia surrounding one celebrity. “He’s kind of constructed this really interesting and well-crafted film about that experience that plays with the boundaries of documentary,” Genna Terranova, Tribeca’s director of programming, told EW.com. “It’s a bit tongue in cheek, as James himself can be. He’s a bit enigmatic and the film is as well.”

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