OlderZac Efron Fires It Up
Zac Efron may have one flick hoping to take the box office this weekend (Charlie St. Cloud), but there’s another one on the horizon — Fire!
The 22-year-old actor opened up to MTV about the new film: “Brian Bendis is writing a script right now. I don’t know when we are getting a draft exactly. But I know that he’s having a blast and Brian is one of my favorite writers. I’m really looking forward to that, we’ll see what happens.”
In the movie, Zac will play Ben, a college student recruited by the CIA who later discovers he’s been marked for termination by his employers.
He shared about playing a character like Ben, “You know the character, he’s not afraid. You know me in life I have a lot of rules. There is a lot of stuff I can’t do because I would never want to take those risks so to speak. As much as I’m a thrill-seeker, I don’t really get into fights,” he explained. “I’m not a renegade kind of guy. And that’s what this character is. I’m definitely going to live vicariously through this character and experience things I can’t do in real life.”
ARE YOU EXCITED for Zac’s Fire?
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Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww YEEEEEEEEES
This will be amazing and it will be nice to see Zac in a pretty different role!
I hope he picks this next and not “The Lucky One”. I mean, I know I don’t like Sparks – because all his books are pratically alike – and therefore I am biased, but seeing how “Dear John” and “The Last Song” both didn’t do that well at the box office, he would be smart to something different. I think Ben would be a good role for him.
I hope this is your next project – something different for your fans!
yep, that should be his next movie.
Its amazing if Fire his next movie project .
very excited that this project is on the horizon!
I HOPE ITS NEXT!!!!!
I think he will take this role and run with it.
I saw CSC and Zac’s acting was better than I have ever seen it, not that his other movies weren’t great, they were, so this is saying something.
I thought Snabba Cash was coming out first, though? Ah, well, only tell will tell what Zac will be doing next.
The concept of the movie sounds awesome,
sounds like an action adventure type movie to me?
Haven’t seen Charlie St. Cloud yet, but I’m hoping to.
It looks amazing as well. Zac Efron’s doing great.
like the character
Zac made 7 MILLIONS in 1 day with Charlie St. Cloud, they are estimating 18 millions in the end of the weekend.
GOOD JOB DARLING!
@ trinissita how do u know?
Yes this much better than any Nicholas Sparks movie
@pop86: Amen!!!! Nicholas Sparks is the devil’s henchman. The devil is Stephanie Meyers.
Oh yes!! And I agree – no Nicholas Sparks movie. Please.
@Garfield_fan: Actually, Dear John made it to the box office. That movie earned 32 million making it no.1 and beating Avatar on the box office.
However, Last Song didn’t make it well. In my opinion, I hope Zac picks the Lucky One cause I love Nicholas Sparks’ books that are made into movies.
Fire isn’t a bad choice. It sounds interesting.
@trinissita:
Where did you read this? Give the link please! I am on pins and needles wondering if Zac’s movie is going to come on top.
Oh.. I’m definitely looking forward to this movie. Zachary in an action movie.. aw yeah..
Come on, Brian Bendis let’s get those fingers typing and word processor going or whatever you do to get this script out there for approval. You’re taking too long !! Let’s GO…
When will the ‘winner’ of the box office weekend be posted? Sunday or Monday? I know JJJ will probably post it here, but I was just wondering when. Anyone know?
AND when will JJ re-do the top celebs and get better pix? Zac’s hair is no longer that long, but I do like V’s pic. I’m just sayin’ it’s been like a year.
CSC was not a good film for Zac. Sorry, but it’s true. I think Fire will be MUCH MUCH BETTER for him. He needs to develop a different fan base, and he needs to put sappy fluff like CSC in his rear view mirror. Just because Zac takes his shirt off in a movie, does NOT make it a good movie, girls. Put your hormones away for a minute, and think about what is best for his acting career. Definitely NOT melodramatic chick flicks. Fire and Snabba Cash can’t get here fast enough to make me forget CSC.
@Marie – really? You have always been vocal about not liking CSC and what not in Zac’s career – stop pretending to be his fan and posting in his thread.
If you have listened to Zac’s CSC interviews, he wanted to do the CSC movie because he connected with the material and its something new for him. And if you have also noticed, the shirtless scenes were NOT the front and center of CSC promotions – it was the brotherly love and living life to the fullest.
Some of us, specially his young fans, are not into the drama romantic/supernatural kind of genre – they prefer the lighter fare like comedy (17 again). I personally prefer drama kind of movies and if by doing CSC, Zac felt that he was stretching his wings and talents, then I respect him for taking this plunge and taking the not so easy route to achieving his long term plan. He has said he is willing to work hard – if anything CSC has proven, despite the failings of the movie that some critics have pinpointed, that he can act. And for that, I am satisfied because I want to see him make movies for a long time.
And as much as I want him to do FIRE or Snabba cash, these projects are not yet ready.
I hope more fans get to see CSC this week. It landed on the 6th place in the week-end block office result last week-end. Let us support Zac and see this movie!!
@Tiptoes:
I agree. Zac’s movie was good, in my opinion, and did help his acting very much. We’ve always known he is a good actor, but this movie truly showed us. You are right, a lot of his fanbase is a bit young and want to see him in exciting, funny, or action movies at the moment. We’re just lucky he has plenty of those on his plate.
@kyle:
Also, it is not for complete certain what Zac’s movie came in at. Right now there are only estimates. We won’t know until tomorrow afternoon. Plus, I think the reason the numbers weren’t as good as it could have been is because they only knew the date would be July 30th about two months ago. If they had known for a long time, like Beastly did, they would have done a lot more to generate buzz over a longer period of time. But, Beastly was moved and CSC came up. Things happen. The numbers are bad by any means, this is the first movie Zac did where he is the main, big star and the movie is relying on mainly his star qualitie alone. It was a great step in him becoming a success.
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