Dave Franco is no stranger to comparisons to Luigi Mangione.
The 39-year-old actor was asked about the internet's call for the role of Mangione at the Sundance Film Festival last weekend. Mangione is the 26-year-old who is accused of shooting and killing United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, 50, in New York in December 2024. In the movie.
“I've never received more text messages about anything in my life,” Franco said in an interview. hollywood reporter He promoted the new horror movie “Together” with his wife Alison Brie.
Franco added: “It's not just my friends. Anyone who has my phone number has contacted me about it.”
Brie, 42, noted that she has yet to receive a “formal offer” from her husband for the role.
“There are no civil servants. [offers]” Franco admitted.
After Mangione was charged with Thompson's murder last month, Franco became a hot topic on social media as fans compared Mangione to the gunman.
The Neighbors star reportedly experienced the third most popular week of Google searches in the past five years.
Comparisons between Franco and Mangione were also featured in a skit on “Saturday Night Live” in which Sarah Sherman played legal journalist Nancy Grace.
Sherman's Grace joked that Mangione is “hot and annoying to women and gays alike” and said Mangione “looks like Dave Franco with Eugene Levy eyebrows.”
The script for a movie about Mangione has not yet been announced. However, several documentaries have been made about the murder, including one by Oscar winner Alex Gibney.
According to deadlineGibney's document states that “the alleged murderer's manifesto and the seemingly meticulous execution of the crime followed his Ivy League background, which led to the public's unapologetic indifference to his victims. We plan to analyze what was done.
Another documentary, directed by two-time Emmy Award nominee Stephen Robert Morse, “explores not only the moral complexities raised by Thompson's murder, but also those of the victims, their families, and Mangione himself.” The film will explore the different perspectives of those caught up in the aftermath. According to Variety.
Mr. Mangione, an Ivy League-educated tech whiz, allegedly shot Mr. Thompson on Dec. 4 on West 54th Street in New York City.
After a five-day nationwide manhunt, Mangione was arrested in Altoona, Pennsylvania, where he stopped at a local McDonald's after getting off a Greyhound bus that was passing through town.
Authorities have accused Mangione of plotting the murder months ago over a grievance with the “parasitic” health insurance industry.
Mangione pleaded not guilty late last month to numerous charges related to the cold-blooded killing. He is being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn. This is the same prison where Sean “Diddy” Combs is being held.
