OlderZac Efron is 'The Lucky One'
Count not one, but two more projects for Zac Efron.
The 22-year-old California native is in talks to star in The Lucky One, according to Variety.
Based on the novel of the same name by Nicholas Sparks, the film centers on a Marine who survives three tours in Iraq and attributes his good fortune to a photograph he carried of a woman he has never met. He sets out to meet his good-luck charm when he returns to North Carolina.
In addition, New York Mag also reports that Zac is interested in another project called Die in a Gun Fight, from recent NYU grads Andrew Barrer and Gabriel Ferrari.
The paper reports about the script, “In the Tarantino-esque blend of Gossip Girl, True Romance and Romeo and Juliet, Efron would play Ben, an underachieving, deadbeat son of a famous New York high society attorney who gets himself in over his head when he falls for the daughter of his father’s nemesis – a girl who is already busy being stalked by an obsessive French professor.”
So many projects — looks like we’ll be seeing a lot of Zac for many years to come!
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I heard that book was good… I hope he gets it! It’d be good for him! I wonder who will play the girl? Look at me, gettin’ too into it already, haha.
Not sure about the other one, sounds a little too dramatic for me, but if Zac sees something in it, I’ll trust him and see how he develops. He’s usually good at picking the movies he wants to be involved in.
Can’t wait for more news. This boy has so many movies he is signing onto. He is gonna be one busy guy!
From a interview with Zac Efron with USA Today:
Efron lights up when asked about people he’d like to work with, such as Watchmen director Zack Snyder.
“I have to mention him because I just saw Vanesssa shooting Sucker Punch. She was in Vancouver, beating the hell out of people and stunt guys. Watching your girlfriend do it, it’s incredibly hot, but at the same time, jealousy was just oozing out of every pore. She can do all the stuff you dream of when I was a kid. I was watching that. So cool. I was happy just to be on set.â€
I thought it was cute. ;)
Can’t wait for CSC!
i hope zac picks Die in a Gun Fight it sounds more intresting than the other movie
Shut up I so hope he gets the lead in The Lucky One. I read the book and loved it. But if he does get it, it will be interesting to see who they chose to play his love interest.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, he’s one of the few Disney guys who is going to make in in hollywood outside of Disney and tweens. The guy is in it to be an actor and it looks like he’s going to do it. So happy for him.
I’ve read “the Lucky one” and LOVED it. Can’t wait to see Zac bring it to life.
How many projects in all does that make now? I lost count a long time ago…
can someone plz tell me where the free screening of CSC will be held in ny today and hpw can i get tix? also what hotel is zac at? i am going to the city today and want to meet him badly
hmm, not a big fan of nicholas sparks nor of the screenplay versions of his books. i know his books and subsequent movies have done well commercially but that is never a selling point for me. i hope this isn’t a project he is looking at just because it will bring commerical success and recognition.
That would make seven projects now…..
If this is true. I’d wait for confirmation from official sources first,before you all start getting excited.
That is amazing for zac and i hope he get both to be honest and i hope he gets the lucky one.
No Zac, Nicholas Sparks movies are just plain awful and his books are just as bad. It is too soon after CSC to do another romantic drama.
pop86 plz can you tell me where the free CSC screening is and how to get tickets urgent plz
@charlene:
it was last night and it was for media critics and invited guest
good for zac! he’s such a talented actor!:) can’t wait! :)
Zac has a number of different projects on his slate by now ,his team is with him to discuss which next project is good for him.Can’t wait but i know 3 projects is in the que for next year.
1.Snabba Cash
2.Fire
3.Einstein Theory.
Wow, I kinda feel like when I found out he was doing “Footloose”
after “HSM3″. Two “Chicks flicks”immediately following a romantic
drama? “Charlie St. Cloud” is his “Notebook” and what happened to
Zac’s “I want to stay relevant and diversify”? I guess as long as Zac
knows what he’s doing. The other project ideas have a better potential
to get a broader audience that includes men. After all the interviews
we’ve seen recently you can tell he wants to make great films about
everything and I have no doubt he has the talent . I’m not saying he shouldn’t do these films they sound good, but maybe in a couple of years and take a break the way he’s taken a break from musicals. As
much as I didn’t want Zac to be “Musical Boy” I also don’t want him
pigeonholed into “Mr.Emotional Loverboy” just playing on the love of an audience of woman, he can do so much more.
@londonlemming:
What are other projects please?
@pop86: there was a lady standing outside of the theatre last week giving out free tics to that so basically anyone who picked one of those up got to see it =]
I love Nicholas Sparks books. I always hoped Zac would be in one of the films. I loved The Lucky One. I really hope he ends up doing it :)
bee what theatre is it at?
I personally just want to see him in another movie with Vanessa,
now that would be EPIC!!!! :]
Zanessa Forever :]
@Zanessafanforever: It would be nice but its way too soon after HSM. They only ended that like 2 and a half years ago or something right? Both Zac & Vanessa are trying to get away from being known for HSM and Disney. Doing another movie together so soon would just make it even harder for them you show their adults and aren’t Disney kids anymore. Give it a few more years, then I think it would be GREAT.
daammn! thats alot of projects! i’ve heard hes gonna be doing snaaba cash, algorthium, fire, einstein theory and now the lucky one and die in a gunfight ? woow, hes gonna be bussy! haah but is it just me or can you guys imagine vanessa in both of them with him? idk but for some reason i automatically thought of vanessa as the girls in both movies…
@Katty: he saaid that? ohmygod cann you sennd me the linnk ?!
Argh. Nicholas Sparks must have like a “plot machine”, where he just throws in all his old plots and re-heats the whole thing. I mean, I know a writer should “write what he/she knows”, but maybe if Nicholas Sparks would actually take more than one year to plot/write/edit a book would be able to come of with some thing… NEW.
But I will watch it if Zac stars in it. He can pull that role of with his eyes closed. Trust me, Zachary, just watch all of the Spark-movies over and over again. It’s best you start with “The Notebook”, because this movie IS actually awesome.
The other thing sound interesting, tho. Hell yeah, gunfights!
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