Child of God -Blu-ray-

Product Description In 1960s Tennessee, Lester Ballard is a dispossessed, violent man one the narrator describes as a child of God much like yourself. Deprived first of his family and then his home, Ballard descends literally and figuratively to the level of a cave dweller, falling deeper into a disturbing life of crime and degradation. DVD EXTRASTRAILER Review "Profoundly intense .. [an] incredible and fierce performance" --Film Threat "Jaw-dropping...Franco delivers the goods with this great, grisly adaptation" --Guardian UK "A galvanizing portrait of social and sexual deviance" --Variety About the Actor Scott Haze and James Franco became close friends when they both attended acting school at Playhouse West in Los Angeles. In 2011 the pair collaborated on Rebel, a multi media art piece Franco created with a series of other filmmakers and artists including art titans Ed Ruscha and Paul McCarthy, Turner Prize winner Douglas ­Gordon, paint-by-­motorcycle artist Aaron Young, fashion photographer Terry ­Richardson, and filmmaker Harmony Korine. Haze worked with Franco and childhood friend Jim Parrack in the section titled Brad Forever, a documentary piece on actor Brad Renfro. In September 2011 Franco announced at the Toronto International Film Festival that he was set to direct and adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's novel Child of God, a story of Lester Ballard, "a young man who becomes ostracized from society and falls into a life of crime and sexual depravity while living in a cave in Tennessee." It was officially announced in January 2012 that Scott Haze had signed on to play that lead role of Lester Ballard. Haze reportedly worked on the role of Ballard for a year prior to filming and actually moving to Sevierville, Tennessee where the Cormac McCarthy novel is set. In mid 2012 Franco announced he was set to direct an adaptation of William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying. Not long after, it was announced that Haze had also joined the film in the role of Skeet MacGowan, a seedy drug store clerk. Franco also shot Interior. Leather Bar at The Sherry Theater, in North Hollywood, which is owned by Haze. The filmed premiered at Sundance Film Festival in January 2013. Haze also shot a cameo in Franco's upcoming directorial film Bukowski, in early 2013, as Iris Ticket, the owner of a burlesque club. On June 16th, 2014 it was announced that Scott Haze would star