FREAK FRANCO'S A NO-GO FOR ROGEN!

But James can’t restart career without him

Scandal-scarred sex pest James Franco is desperate to repair his friendship with onetime best bud Seth Rogen, believing a reconciliation would help jump-start his stalled career, but his overtures have fallen on deaf ears, sources exclusively spill to GLOBE.

Franco, 46, and Rogen, 42, were close for years after costarring on the NBC com-ing-of-age series Freaks and Geeks in 1999, but sources say the gulf between them has never been wider.

“James has been bending over backward trying to earn Seth’s forgiveness, but that door has been slammed shut,” an insider dishes.