'Spring Breakers': James Franco, Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens, Emma Roberts In Talks

Pretty confident that this one won't air on the Disney Channel.

Variety reports that Selena Gomez and Vanessa Hudgens, two of the last decade's biggest tween starlets, are in talks to join the cast of the dark Harmony Korine film, "Spring Breakers." They would potentially join the also-negotiating James Franco and Emma Roberts in the flick about four college students who rob a restaurant to pay for their spring break trip, and the scamming drugs and arms dealer with whom they get entangled.

Franco is certainly turning toward dark roles, with turns in the upcoming mental illness-themed dramas, "Maladies" and "The Stare," as well as "Cherry," about a porn star who gets entangled with a drug addicted lawyer.

Hudgens is making her first real dark film in "Gimme Shelter," in which she plays a pregnant teen who turns to the streets in search of survival. Pictures of her with short, jet-black hair have cropped up over the past few months as she filmed the project.

As for Roberts, she starred in "It's Kind of A Funny Story," playing a girl undergoing psychotherapy, though the movie was less than dark.

For more, click over to Variety.

Comments

[IvyRedhead Hoffart]

01:04 AM on 12/18/2011

For a "dark" Vanessa Hudgens, see Sucker Punch!!!

[JennyL33]

12:01 AM on 11/05/2011

So, this is Franco's next project after Oz: The Great and Powerful? hmmm, interesting....

[AllisonNUM1]

04:56 PM on 11/04/2011

What is the Story? The Screenplay? It seems that reasonably, they should all do well. Its not friggin Milton or The Bible they are covering! Its a Commedy/whatever movie! Laugh out loud and relax, people! I LOVE Selena above all, but I also love Vanessa, Emma and James. I LOVE this cast! Selenators will all go see this!

[Mila mestisa]

03:32 PM on 11/03/2011

Oh. They meant "dark" in a different way......

[Smarty5]

02:29 PM on 11/03/2011

Tappable indeed.

[Dede Eagleburger]

11:20 AM on 11/03/2011

Okay, the headline confused me, i thought it was going to say they all went brunette?

[mad world]

10:02 AM on 11/03/2011

Gomez looks 12. She alone will kill any "dark" quality the movie might have. Hudgens is good because we've all seen her vajajay, so it's not much of a stretch to see her as seedy.

[AllisonNUM1]

04:46 PM on 11/04/2011

Keep the bigotry in perspective: no one knows anything of any certain future. U, YOU, dont know if ANY of them will nail their roles! Selena WILL do just fine. Thats a certain fact. Go elsewhere and bash ur other fav disney stars! Selena is amazing in EVERything she does.

[mad world]

11:44 PM on 11/04/2011

Please learn how to use proper grammar when attempting to argue with elders and figure out how to use words in their proper context. No one takes you seriously when you use text speak to bumble through life.

[JennyL33]

11:58 PM on 11/04/2011

So basically you are saying that no one should predict the future but you are predicting that Selena is going to be amazing in it? Out of curiosity, who is this little kiddie? Was she in any great films that I haven't heard of?

[Joseph Schmoe]

09:44 AM on 11/03/2011

Ooooh, "dark."
Please.

[Cindy Noel]

07:38 AM on 11/03/2011

vanessa were the hell have you been?

[free nel]

07:52 PM on 11/02/2011

They are actors.. they act.

[marred]

05:41 PM on 11/02/2011

Emma Roberts is as cute as hell!

[cdub1991]

12:28 PM on 11/02/2011

Ooooh--dark Selena--ooooh--I'm so scared...

[raanghaus]

12:09 PM on 11/02/2011

selena gomez plays a witch on a children program....

[IsabelRingin]

10:52 AM on 11/02/2011

I wish them good luck, but....

Its kind of like why Annette Funicello never played a hooker, or a drug addict...

[thejadedentrepreneur]

10:02 AM on 11/02/2011

Franco is too old and Gomez looks too young. The casting is suspect.

[Boognish represent]

10:41 AM on 11/02/2011

Franco is in talks to play the drug dealer.

[JennyL33]

12:05 AM on 11/05/2011

Pineapple Express?