The acclaimed novel "The Adderall Diaries" has gone from page to screen in a new film that had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival. NY1's Neil Rosen filed this report.
"The Adderall Diaries," based on the book by Stephen Elliott, tells the story of a drug addicted novelist who delves into the world of a high profile murder case. The movie stars and was produced by James Franco and also features Amber Heard and Ed Harris.
"I was really into creative non fiction and writers like Stephen Elliott and my friend David Shields who put themselves in their books, but they're not memoirs. They are different types of creativity than just a straight memoir where they are using material from real life, but they are shaping it in such a way that it becomes art," Franco says.
"I play Lana and she's a recovering alcoholic, recovering addict and she's got a lot skeletons in her closet and a lot of demons that she's overcome and worked to conquer," says Heard.
"Pamela Romanowsky, the director, I worked on this with her as an advisor at the Sundance Film Lab a couple of summers ago and that was really interesting. You're working with scenes, you're working with actors. I wasn't acting, I was just helping her develop the script, so when she asked me to do it it was cool," says Harris.
The movie was directed by Pamela Romanowsky. It's her first full-length feature film, although she worked with James Franco previously on another movie.
"James Franco and I are friends from grad school and as you mentioned worked together on a short film that became part of an omnibus feature, and I think we clicked creatively and he has become one of my favorite people, best friends, favorite collaborator," Romanowsky says.
You can catch "The Adderall Diaries" at the Tribeca Film Festival. For more information go to tribecafilm.com.