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For well over half a decade, Hollywood has been trying to bring Neill Strauss‘ “The Game,” his skeezy exposé about the world of pick up artists, to the big screen. Early on, “The Office” writers Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky were hired to tackled the script, and back in 2012 James Franco and Josh Gad became attached to star, with directing pair Brian Koppelman and David Levein at the helm. This is all a long way to say, that version never happened, and things went quiet, but the movie is still happening.

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Deadline reports that Franco is back on to star and produce “The Game,” with everything now moving towards shooting in 2017. No word on who had their hand on the latest draft of the script, and the hunt is on for a director and cast to make this happen.

However, Franco is still lined up to play Mystery, the man who knows all the secrets to winning women, which includes “negging” (gross). With the book already earning its fair share of controversy, no doubt the movie should do the same.