Amber Heard Joins James Franco's 'The Adderall Diaries'

About four years ago James Franco quietly picked up the rights to activist/director/author Stephen Elliott's memoir, The Adderall Diaries, with plans to adapt and star in the film himself. He's been busy bringing other authors' novels to the screen, some more successfully than others, and now Franco is finally turning his attention back to it, lining up an impressive cast led by Amber Heard.

Heard, along with Christian Slater, Ed Harris, Cynthia Nixon, and Jim Parrack (who also starred in Franco's Child of God and As I Lay Dying) have joined the film which Robert Redord is exec-producing and Pamela Romanowsky is directing. Similar to In Cold Blood, the story begins when Elliott tries to break his writer's block by reporting on a murder trial.  Fueled by copious amounts of the ADHD drug, Adderall, Elliott's stream-of-consciousness writing veers into some wild territory territory including Paris Hilton, S&M, and the actions of his cruel father.

No word on when filming will begin. Heard will be seen next in London Fields, another adaptation about a writer suffering from writer's block. Funny that.