Zac Efron To Star in Mandate's Matt Drake Project
Zac Efron is set to star in a new project from Matt Drake which was picked up by Mandate Pictures.
Formerly billed as The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman, the 23-year-old actor will play a suburban kid, who spontaneously travels to Eastern Europe to find himself. Early on in his comedic journey, he falls for an alluring young woman and the only thing standing between them is her charismatic, dangerous ex from a criminal underworld.
Armed with little more than his wit and naive charm, Zac‘s character endures one bruising beat down after another in order to woo the girl he loves and achieve salvation.
Stay tuned to JJJ for more details on Zac‘s latest project!

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nawww this is a cute plot cant wait to watch it
I wish Zac could take different roles, Its always the same drama in his movies. I would love to watch him in a action movie or the bad boy side…
How many projects does he have coming up?
IM SO PROUD OF YOU ZAC <3
Haven’t we known about this for a while? I know I have. Zac has too much on his plate right now, it’s getting kind of ridiculous. I understand having two or three projects in the works, but he has like six. Plus, half of them don’t sound good.
Come on, Zac, pick up your game and stop being caught with girls in publics AND drinking. If you’re going to join the Hollywood nightlife at least do it smartly. You’re seriously losing soo much respect and it won’t be long before I am not your fan anymore.
@justme: Action movie for the win ! I can see him as a criminal though.. :s lol, he’d be one heck of a master mind. :D I’ll support him either way. :)
some of you people need to let zac live his life. Like seriously hes a grown man living life and having fun hes not doing anything illegal. I would understand if he was in the tabloids everyday . but hes not. Drinking is okay hes a guy. He could be doing alot worse. I adore zac and i hope he lives his life to the fullest.
some of you people need to let zac live his life. Like seriously hes a grown man living life and having fun hes not doing anything illegal. I would understand if he was in the tabloids everyday . but hes not. Drinking is okay hes a guy. He could be doing alot worse. I adore zac and i hope he lives his life to the fullest.
awesome zac!!
im so happy for him.hes doing great.
Love you zachary :)
this isn’t drama,this is supposed to be an action movie I thought o_O
and I’m pretty sure that getting drunk every now and then and experience getting more edgy will help zac to get into those roles. just like in die in a gunfight. btw, I think when jared says ”endures one bruising beat down after another in order to woo the girl he loves and achieve salvation.” means something like action rather than drama. if the movie stars an drug boss gangster whatever looks less like drama… but I dunno ^^
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I do not blame him for partying,hope he had major fun and total blast.same way no one blames vanessa for partying ;) she was seen in vegas with a boy as well,there was a pic of them I saw,everyone said ‘ hope she’s lucky with him’ …so,but if zac parties he is a douche bag :( if he is with another girl,no one is happy he moved on o_O ?
I’m just being fair,I neither blame zac nor ness for partying,drinking,dancing even if it was with another girl/boy.
besides,nessa confirmed in the shape interview exactly what I’ve always thought : they split because they would be too busy the following months and a realatinship via iPhone doesn’t work … hope jared posts it 2morrow or maybe already has…
Always nice to see good actors getting jobs.
God please let that alluring woman be vanessa.I would love if they were in a movie together. They could fall in love all over again with each other.
@butterfly
lol on relationship via-iphone, clever
sounds great (:
good for Zac
amazing!! it’s will be super cool!
This would be no biggie if it was an occasional thing. But there have been SO many tweets starting back around Jan of him bar hopping, clubbing, doing shots, and making out with random unknown chicks. That with his face being so bloated kinda adds up to him having a drinking problem. He even looks stoned in a lot of the pap pics. He may have been drinking all along behind closed doors, but for the past 3 mos, it’s escalated and he’s taken it public big time.
He got a feather tattoo? How very….Vanessa.
Zac is my Idol he is The Best I Can’t Wait to see this Movie
@pam: The tattoo does make me think of vanessa’s earing she wore. He did get two feathers him and vanessa maybe. There is so much stuff about them i don’t know what to believe.
His PR people are a piece of work. First of all this project does not even have a director or a start date the original director and original star Shia LeBeouf dropped out but since Vs Shape Mag came out they had to throw something out there the whole team is insecure,
As for him having too much on his plate. What does he have none of the mentioned projects recently are even remotely close to production that’s why he’s got so much time to club and run with those ninjas.
I wish the name wasn’t another Charlie but I guess that’s the name the author gave it.
i still believe his pr people are behind the break up, they wanted Zac to focus on his caeer, i just read they have a director now but i can.t his name, you can’t fight your pr people so both are suck. i wish Zac would open his eyes, about his pr eople esp. Gina.
@Katty: I completely agree with you..
Big f’n deal
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