Selena Gomez and James Franco Reuniting on the Big Screen for In Dubious Battle!

Vincent D'Onofrio, Robert Duvall, Ed Harris, Bryan Cranston and Danny McBride will also star in the Franco-helmed film

By Bruna Nessif Jan 31, 2015 1:21 AMTags
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Selena Gomez has snagged another movie role, and this time she'll be sharing the screen with James Franco once again!

E! News confirms that the brunette beauty, who is currently filming Fundamentals of Caregiving, is reuniting with her Spring Breakers co-star for In Dubious Battle, based on John Steinbeck's gritty, realist novel of the same name, which portrays the economic struggle between labor and capital in 1930s America as close to all-out warfare.

Franco will also be directing the film, which has a star-studded cast that includes Vincent D'Onofrio, Robert Duvall, Ed Harris, Bryan Cranston and Danny McBride.

According to the press release, In Dubious Battle is "set in a fictionalized valley in California" and "explores themes Steinbeck continued to develop: group behavior, social injustice, man's inhumanity to man—all themes which continue to be relevant today.

"A labor conflict between migrant apple pickers and the local growers' association is the backdrop against which Jim Nolan (Franco) becomes involved in the labor movement and rapidly matures as he learns what it means to do organizational fieldwork."

Back in March 2013, Gomez admitted that Franco "freaked me out" while filming Spring Breakers, which was probably because she didn't even meet him until he showed up to film his scenes as a drug-dealing gangster.

"He stayed in character the whole time and luckily for me, my character was creeped out by him, because I genuinely was at first," the actress told David Letterman at the time. "We shot the movie for four weeks, then he came in and walked on set as his character and freaked me out," Gomez continued.

"That's who I knew, until we started doing press and I realized he's one of the most intelligent people I've ever met."