James Franco has been sued for violating film rights of Charles Bukowski's novel 'Ham on Rye'.
According to the lawsuit, Franco had an agreement to develop the book, but the rights expired in 2010, and his "Bukowski" film treads on the novel, the Hollywood Reporter reported.
The legal complaint alleges that Franco's film is infringing upon this famous novel, as it borrows the themes of childhood loneliness; adolescent self-consciousness, the failures, hypocrisy, and cruelty of adults and, in an unflinching depiction, the crude interest teenage boys take in sex.
In January, 2009, Franco and Cyril Humphris entered into an agreement to allow the actor to develop a film based on the novel.
