‘The Deuce’: James Franco Talks Three-Season Plan For The HBO Series

James Franco is down for the three-season plan for HBO’s “The Deuce.”

In a recent interview with Collider, Franco confirmed that series creators David Simon and George Pelecanos have a three-season plan for the series, and it’s something that the actor is committed to be a part of.

Franco, who plays twin brothers Vincent and Frankie Martino on the period drama, said that one of the things that he finds interesting about the project is the fact that it’s a hybrid between a limited series and a regular series.

“There are only eight episodes a season [so] it gives it this perfectly encapsulated, very concise, economical power punch feeling to it,” said Franco.

“From the beginning, the plan was to cover 14 years. The first season is ‘71-‘72, and the dawn of pornography. The second season is ‘77, ‘78 and ‘79, or somewhere in there. And then, the third season will be ‘84-‘85 when everything imploded and the old [New York’s] 42nd Street was shut down by Mayor [Edward Irving] Koch. I think if we pull it off, it will be a really nice encapsulation of a time and a place.”

Last week, HBO renewed the series for a second season. “We are thrilled to continue our creative collaboration with master storytellers David Simon and George Pelecanos,” said HBO programming president Casey Bloys in a statement to Deadline. “Their unique gift for immersing the audience in their dark and edgy worlds brings a brilliant verisimilitude unlike any other. With the remarkably talented Maggie Gyllenhaal and James Franco leading an exceptional cast, we look forward to delving deeper as this captivating story evolves.”

Shortly after the announcement of the Season 2 renewal, Pelecanos told The Huffington Post that the sophomore run will be set in the late ‘70s “when all the craziness [in the sex industry] went to the mountaintop.” “It was an ascent to decadence,” the series creator teased.

But if the show is renewed for a third season, viewers will see the fall of New York’s 42nd Street. “You’ve got to go down the mountain once you go up,” Pelecanos explained. “That would be the ‘80s, when AIDS came to New York and video tape replaced film and the porn industry moved out to the San Fernando Valley. And it’s a money story, so a lot of people swooped into Times Square and bought up all these properties when they hit bottom, and that’s when they started kicking those folks out, and started building the idea of Times Square that we know today.”

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