James Franco is certainly not one to rest on his laurels. As I Lay Dying is his second film this year as both director and star, and he has also appeared in Oz the Great and Powerful and Spring Breakers. His is the first film adaptation of William Faulkner’s classic 1930 novel, which follows the journey of an impoverished family through the American South to bury its matriarch. Expect existential melodrama, Southern Gothic style.