Written & Directed by James Franco Starring Scott Haze, Tim Blake Nelson & James Franco When the title card Child of God first appears, it’s stamped over a man that’s just been walloped by an axe to the head, writhing and growling in pain. His name is Lester Ballad and he embodies Cormac McCarthy’s eponymous…
Roundtable Interview: James Franco (Writer/Director) & Scott Haze (Star) – ‘Child of God’
Directed by James Franco, and based on the chilling novel by Cormac McCarthy, ‘Child of God‘, tells the provocative story of Lester Ballad (Scott Haze), a dispossessed, violent man, attempting to exist outside the social order. Consecutively deprived of parents and housing and driven by famished loneliness, Ballard descends literally and figuratively to the level of a cave dweller…