Dave Franco is aware of about these Luigi Mangione comparisons.
The actor, 39, was requested on the Sundance Movie Competition over the weekend concerning the web’s name for him to play Mangione — the 26-year-old who allegedly shot and killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, 50, in NYC in Dec. 2024 — in a film.
“I’ve by no means acquired extra texts in my life about something,” Franco stated in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter alongside his spouse, Alison Brie, whereas selling their new horror movie, “Collectively.”
Franco added, “Not simply mates — anybody who has my cellphone quantity has reached out about it.”
Brie, 42, identified that her husband hasn’t gotten “any official gives” but for the potential function.
“No official [offers],” Franco confirmed.
After Mangione was accused of killing Thompson final month, Franco went viral on social media as followers in contrast him to the alleged gunman.
The “Neighbors” star reportedly skilled his third-most-popular week of Google searches within the final 5 years.
The comparisons between Franco and Mangione have been even introduced up in a “Saturday Evening Dwell” sketch the place Sarah Sherman performed authorized journalist Nancy Grace.
Sherman’s Grace joked that Mangione has “girls and homosexual guys alike all sizzling and bothered,” and stated he “seems to be like Dave Franco with Eugene Levy eyebrows.”
A scripted film about Mangione has but to be introduced. Nonetheless, there are a number of documentaries concerning the homicide within the works, together with one from Oscar winner Alex Gibney.
Based on Deadline, Gibney’s doc will analyze “the crime’s seemingly meticulous execution to the alleged killer’s manifesto and his Ivy League background to the general public’s unapologetic apathy in direction of the sufferer.”
One other documentary from two-time Emmy nominee Stephen Robert Morse will “discover the assorted views of these embroiled within the homicide and its aftermath, together with the victims, their households and Mangione himself, in addition to the ethical complexities thrown up by Thompson’s homicide,” based on Selection.
Mangione, an Ivy League-educated tech whiz, allegedly gunned down Thompson on West 54th Avenue in NYC on Dec. 4.
After a five-day nationwide manhunt, Mangione was arrested in Altoona, Pennsylvania, the place he stopped at a neighborhood McDonald’s after getting off a Greyhound bus that was passing via city.
Authorities have accused Mangione of planning the homicide months prematurely over a gripe with the “parasitic” medical insurance trade.
Mangione pleaded not responsible late final month to a slew of prices tied to the cold-blooded killing. He’s being held at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Heart — the identical jail housing Sean “Diddy” Combs.