# Star with most movies in development?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-with-most-movies-in-development/781576>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 6, 2017, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-with-most-movies-in-development/781576 "2017-03-06T20:09:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2017, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-with-most-movies-in-development/781576/1 "2017-03-06T20:09:57Z")

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Just checked out [Reese Witherspoon](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000702/reference) on IMDB and find that she has an incredible 24 movies in development (details on 20 of them are only available on IMDB Pro unfortunately). This is films in pre-production, post-production or announced. I don’t think I’ve ever seen an actor with so many films in development.

Is this a record?

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**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2017, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-with-most-movies-in-development/781576/2 "2017-03-06T21:22:44Z")

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[Eric Roberts,](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000616/?ref_=nv_sr_1) the most workingest man in Hollywood: 57.

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**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2017, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-with-most-movies-in-development/781576/3 "2017-03-06T21:40:21Z")

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Is she a producer in most of those? She has 7 producer credits listed for this year/in production/etc.

E.g., she was a producer for _Gone Girl_ but didn’t act in it.

Getting a producer credit is sometimes incredibly trivial. A show we watched last night had something like 7 executive/co-executive producers and a host of lesser producers.

That Eric Roberts page. Wow. I knew he was somehow still getting work, but nowhere near that much. Wow again.

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**Author:** ![mcgato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac8455/32.png) [@mcgato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mcgato)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2017, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-with-most-movies-in-development/781576/4 "2017-03-07T14:19:53Z")

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A few years back, Witherspoon started a production company to find and develop material for films that have strong female characters. [Some details here.](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/reese-witherspoon-her-production-company-833137)

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**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2017, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-with-most-movies-in-development/781576/5 "2017-03-07T23:08:13Z")

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Not a record, but James Franco currently has [17 in some stage of production](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0290556/). For each of the past several years he’s averaged about 10-15 projects per year, though I’d challenge most people to name more than two or three. I think more people have actually _appeared_ in James Franco TV shows and movies than have _seen_ them.