Dave Franco is aware of about these Luigi Mangione comparisons.
The actor, 39, was requested on the Sundance Movie Pageant 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 never received more texts in my life about anything,” Franco mentioned in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter alongside his spouse, Alison Brie, whereas selling their new horror movie, “Together.”
Franco added, “Not just friends — anyone who has my phone number has reached out about it.”
Brie, 42, identified that her husband hasn’t gotten “any official offers” but for the potential position.
“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 Night Live” sketch the place Sarah Sherman performed authorized journalist Nancy Grace.
Sherman’s Grace joked that Mangione has “women and gay guys alike all hot and bothered,” and mentioned he “looks like Dave Franco with Eugene Levy eyebrows.”
A scripted film about Mangione has but to be introduced. Nevertheless, there are a number of documentaries concerning the homicide within the works, together with one from Oscar winner Alex Gibney.
In keeping with 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 public’s unapologetic apathy towards the victim.”
One other documentary from two-time Emmy nominee Stephen Robert Morse will “explore the various perspectives of those embroiled in the murder and its aftermath, including the victims, their families and Mangione himself, as well as the moral complexities thrown up by Thompson’s murder,” in line with Selection.
Mangione, an Ivy League-educated tech whiz, allegedly gunned down Thompson on West 54th Road in NYC on Dec. 4.
After a five-day nationwide manhunt, Mangione was arrested in Altoona, Pennsylvania, the place he stopped at an area 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 health insurance business.
Mangione pleaded not responsible late final month to a slew of fees tied to the cold-blooded killing. He’s being held at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Middle — the identical jail housing Sean “Diddy” Combs.
