EXCLUSIVE : James Franco reveals that he has a role in a “big studio movie,” the first blockbuster, he tells Deadline, he’s appeared in for close to a decade.

Franco says that the film’s already shot but “it won’t be ready for this summer, but my guess is it will be end of this year or spring-summer 2027.”

The actor wasn’t able to reveal more but he was excited to discuss it because by his reckoning The Disaster Artist , released in 2017, was the last production that he would class as a studio picture. “That was New Line and then they let us sell it to A24,” Franco explains.

The actor spoke to us at the official festival dinner at the Palm Beach which he attended with his partner, filmmaker Izabel Pakzad.

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Franco appeared in a string of hot properties such as 127 Hours and Pineapple Express , but studio features have been light on the ground since the 2021 settlement of a legal case brought against him by former acting students who accused him of sexual misconduct.

But the actor says…