![\"WHY](\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/01\/james-franco-and-bryan-cranston-in-WHY-HIM.jpg\")
<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
James Franco and Bryan Cranston star in “Why Him?”<\/em><\/p>\n From the makers of blockbuster family comedies such as \u201cMeet The Parents\u201d and \u201cNight at the Museum\u201d comes a hilarious endearing family movie \u201cWhy Him?\u201d starring Oscar nominees James Franco and Bryan Cranston with Zoey\u00a0 Deutch and Megan Mullally featuring the voice of Big Bang Theory\u2019s Kaley Cuoco (virtual concierge named Justine).<\/p>\n Franco stars as Laird Mayhew, a heavily tattoed and socially awkward tech billionaire in \u201cWhy Him?\u201d – an unconventional family movie that puts a hilarious fresh spin on the anxiety-inducing tradition of introducing one\u2019s significant other to the family. Ned (Cranston) thinks Laird, who has absolutely no filter, is a wildly inappropriate match for his daughter Stephanie (Deutch). Ned\u2019s panic level escalates when the straight-laced Midwesterner, who finds himself increasingly out of step in Laird\u2019s glamorous high-tech world, learns that Laird is about to pop the question.<\/p>\n Directed by John Hamburg, \u201cWhy Him?\u201d was an idea hatched in a basement in Atlanta when producers Shawn Levy, Dan Levine, Ben Stiller and Jonah Hill were in production on the 2012 alien invasion comedy \u201cThe Watch.\u201d \u201cWe were all standing there in the dark on this wet, claustrophobic stage saying how great it would be to do a movie in Hawaii,\u201d recalls Levy. \u201cShawn and Ben and Jonah came up with this idea called Aloha\u2026 We loved the idea and gave it to John Hamburg, who did an amazing rewrite and reconceived the whole idea. He really made it his own.\u00a0 The only downside was that he changed the location, so we\u2019re not shooting in Hawaii,” Levine says. “But everything else was perfect.\u201d<\/p>\n With an established reputation in the comedy realm as a result of his extensive work with frequent collaborator Seth Rogen, Franco, who earned a best actor Oscar nomination for his turn as hiker Aron Ralston in 2010\u2019s \u201c127 Hours,\u201d was interested in exploring the genre further with a different dynamic under Hamburg\u2019s direction. \u201cWhen I got into comedy, I was introduced to the importance of grounded characters who provide a real emotional through-line and not just a series of jokes,\u201d Franco says. \u201cJohn really subscribes to that idea and creates the kind of comedies that I gravitate toward because it doesn\u2019t feel like fluff. You\u2019re actually having something of an experience while you\u2019re laughing.\u201d<\/p>\n Franco and Hamburg\u2019s relationship actually began as professor and student when the actor was attending the graduate filmmaking program at NYU. \u201cUnfortunately, he was my teacher the semester that I was doing 127 Hours, so I wasn\u2019t there a lot,\u201d Franco says. \u201cBut we talked a lot and I got to know him on the phone.\u201d<\/p>\n To help develop the character of Laird, Franco Skyped with video game designer Cliff Bleszinski (known as CliffyB) for some real-world inspiration. \u201cHe\u2019s sort of like a snowboarder pimp,\u201d Franco says. \u201cThat\u2019s sort of like his style. He talked really fast, he throws in a lot of cuss words but is also saying some pretty intelligent things, you know? I thought, oh, there\u2019s something of Laird in there that I can use.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWhy Him?\u201d opens in cinemas on February 1 from 20th<\/sup> Century Fox to be distributed by Warner Bros.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cWhy Him?\u201d opens in cinemas on February 1 from 20th Century Fox to be distributed by Warner Bros. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[1817,1951,1950,1949],"class_list":["post-11888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-release","tag-20th-century-fox","tag-hollywood-movie","tag-james-franco","tag-why-him"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/01\/james-franco-and-keegan-michael-key-in-WHY-HIM-e1483954463169.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11888"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11894,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11888\/revisions\/11894"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}