Taylor Lautner and director Michael Bay have sent out an untitled script to the major studios. The Twilight actor and Transformers director won’t discuss the story but insiders tell Deadline that “it’s Mr. & Mrs. Smith meets Wanted.“ I’m interpreting this to mean that the movie is about a nihilistic couple who take their orders from a magic quilt, and that the story abruptly ends.” Or, as is more likely, the movie involves elite assassins. Huzzah.
Hit the jump for where Mr. & Mrs. Wanted might fit into Lautner’s busy schedule.
Lautner is a highly in-demand actor despite the fact that he has yet to open a movie based on his name alone. It will be interesting to see if Team Jacob is enough to drive the box office of his first starring vehicle, Abduction, when it opens this September. Lautner is also set to star in Stretch Armstrong (based off the toy you get bored with after five minutes) and the adaptation of the young adult novel Incarceron. He also has an untitled spy project set up at New Regency. Deadline reports that the potential project between Bay and Lautner would shoot in 2012 due to the actor’s limited availability in 2011.
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i hope its good
there is no worse actor working in hollywood today than taylor lautner
haha yeah lets’s put these two geniuses together and see what unoriginal movie shines on the big screen
COME ON!!!!!!!!!
why the f would he agree to do Stretch Armstrong, and who the hell approved it?
The movie Battleship is way over budget and it is gonna have to do enormously well at the boxoffice to break even. So the Stretch Armstrong will probably be pushed back even further or maybe offered up for bids (that may negate the Lautner attachment). There is supposed to be a special screening of Abduction for industry heads in LA this week. I’ve spoken to some people (6) who have either seen Abduction rushes or know someone who has, according to them, if fast paced action movies are your taste this is one to see. Singleton is back on his game. No matter what, Lautner seems to be investing his lofty salaries into his future while still riding the twilight crest. He’s smart and appears to be actively involved in negotiations….he’s doing this at age 19…He’s going to be someone to be reckoned with, whether in front of the camera or not, it seems like he is going to be a player in this industry.
…it’s like the Internet conspired to create a movie news story especially designed to give me an aneurysm.