Remember when Winona Ryder took a bunch of drugs and tried to steal five thousand dollars’ worth of crap from Saks? Well, in fifty or so years’ time when she lies on her deathbed looking back on her life, it is likely she will reflect that the whole shoplifting thing was only the second craziest thing she ever did. Don’t believe us? Then maybe it’s time for you to sit down, check out the trailer for The Letter, below, and start to question the very fabric of reality. Do make sure you sit down first.

WHAT IS THIS. WHAT IS GOING ON HERE. WAS THIS FILMED ON A HANDYCAM? The Letter, written and directed by some sort of person called Jay Anania, supposedly tells the story of a playwright who begins to suspect that someone is poisoning her or something? It’s not clear from the trailer, that’s for sure. All that’s clear is that James Franco is in this and at one point Winona Ryder feels like someone is looking at her and then BAM James Franco is looking at her! Damn. We did not see that coming. And who’s that other guy, blowing into her face? Who is that? Is that you, critically acclaimed writer/director Jay Anania? Why does everyone keeps raising their eyebrows? Who am I? And what on EARTH is James Franco doing to that lady with the black hair who isn’t Winona Ryder? Get your fingers out of there James Franco!

A cursory glance at the IMDB page for Jay Anania will tell you that he is the head of the directing programme at NYU’s film graduate school and thus is one of James Franco’s teachers. Aw, that’s nice isn’t it? Or maybe this is a quid pro quo situation in which Jay Anania makes James Franco be in his films in return for giving him lots of A pluses. Sounds like a good set-up to us. Everyone’s a winner.

Are you as excited for The Letter as we are?