Dave Franco Wants To Make A "Gross" And "Old School" Horror Flick Like Cronenberg

When you think of Dave Franco you probably think of films like ‘21 Jump Street’ or ‘The Disaster Artist ‘but fans were taken aback by the fact he directed a pretty unsettling horror flick called ‘THE RENTAL’ but that project might not have just been a experiment.

News has come our way that our friends over at Comicbook.com recently spoke to the Franco and he has his eyes set on making another flick in the genre, and he has some big shoes to fill if he wants to do it the way he mentions below.

When asked by ComicBook.com what filmmaking genre he might dive into next, Franco detailed, "I'm not going to take anything off the table, but I am having a little bit of an itch to get back to horror. I just am such a fan of the genre, and [wife] Alison [Brie] and I, we went through a phase recently where we rewatched a ton of Cronenberg films, and it just made me really want to do something with practical effects and really set aside the time to get that right and do it where it feels really old school and palpable and gross and all that stuff."

Famously, David Cronenberg’s films haven’t been box office smashes but they sure do gross people out. Whether it be Videodrome, The Brood, or Scanners, Cronenberg knows how to get under the audiences skin.

“It's hard for me to say," the filmmaker confirmed when asked if he'd like to reimagine one of Cronenberg's films. "I don't think so. It's hard. I don't think ... It's just so hard to touch some of these classics. But the one that comes to mind first for me in terms of like, 'Oh, man, I want to do something like that,' is The Fly. I just love how gross it gets. It's so gross."

Would you like to see Franco return to horror? Should he? Let us know and we’ll keep you updated if this is just talk or something that has some legs.

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