Pineapple Express star James Franco knows a thing or two about recurring roles, having played Peter Parker's best-friend-turned-nemesis Harry Osborn/New Goblin in three *Spider-Man *movies.
Now Franco (pictured, left) is unspooling some loose talk about bringing his weed-happy *Pineapple Express *character into the world of Superbad's un-dynamic duo (played by Jonah Hill, center, and Michael Cera).
Franco, who got his first break when Superbad and Pineapple Express producer Judd Apatow cast him in the 1999 TV series Freaks and Geeks, told MTV News: "I think Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg really didn't want to write a Superbad sequel, so an answer to that was to do a Superbad/Pineapple Express crossover movie with two directors, Greg Motolla and David Gordon Green, each directing half of this movie where somehow these characters get together."
One problem, as Franco points out: "Seth Rogen plays characters in both movies, so somehow we'd have to kill one of them off."
Franco is hardly the doofus in real life that he portrays in Pineapple Express. A UCLA graduate who will pick up an advanced creative writing degree in the fall, Franco arrives on movie sets armed with a fully loaded book bag. According to the Los Angeles Times, Franco kept himself busy during the making of Pineapple Express by studying 16th century Jacobean plays like *The Revenger's Tragedy *between takes.
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