James Franco Passes Not Paying Actors Off As Someone Else's Fault, Fires Low-Budget Casting Call Ad Writer

James Franco apparently thinks the honor of working with him is as good as a paycheck.

Franco recently caught flack for a low-pay casting call...and he's blaming his team, not himself.

Last week, a casting call went out for James Franco's new low-budget adaptation of Faulkner's book, The Sound And The Fury, that promised that working with Franco in itself was kinda like a paycheck.

It said,

"For those wanting to work with James, that in itself can be considered great currency," the casting call read.

It added, "He is a fantastic director and quite loyal to his actors!! This story is both deep and rich!"

Apparently, though, one won't actually get rich by working with Franco. Deep didn't imply deep pockets.

This Sound and the Fury casting call prompted, well, sounding off and fury-and rightly so.

Franco is now blaming his team, and fired the person who wrote the casting call.

His attorneys immediately contacted the man who wrote it to tell him he would no longer be with the project.

"Understandably James' camp was really upset that the casting call made it sound like he had a huge ego or something. That wasn't the guy's intention in writing it, but that's how it came across," the "source" said.

Okayyyy.

"It wasn't good PR for James, or his movie!," the source said.

No. No it wasn't.

The source continued trying to cover up for the ad, saying,  "The truth is that the whole project is being done on a low budget and all the leads and cast and crew are being paid lower than they would be on a major blockbuster. But the people choosing to work on the project are doing it for the love of their art, not for the money."

Wait, low budget projects don't pay as much as blockbusters?! Shocking!

Do you think the James Franco casting call move was genuinely unintentional or just a gaffe that reveals, well, a gigantic ego? Sound off in the comments below!