Movie ReView - ABDUCTION
Two years ago 18-year-old Taylor Lautner was playing, well, fifth fiddle to Christian Slater – he played the former Young Guns’ on-screen son – in the passable but short-lived TV series, ”My Own Worst Enemy”. Six months or so after the series’ final episode, Lautner – whose only other major credits at that stage included a forgettable turn in ”Cheaper by the Dozen 2” and the crafty but crud ”Sharkboy and Lava Girl in 3D” – was wooing audiences with his turn as native lycanthrope Jacob Black in ”Twilight” – and soon, the sequel, ”New Moon”.
Now the young actor’s one of the most in-demand actors around – his sudden success echoing Tom Cruise’s rise-to-fame after ”Risky Business” in 1983, and Kevin Costner after “The Untouchables” – with every studio in town clamoring to get Lautner on the books.
Lautner’s got about half-a-dozen major projects in the works – including tentpole blockbusters “Stretch Armstrong” and “Max Steel” – with another just snapped up by Lionsgate.
In a time when scripts aren’t selling as high they use to, the studio paid a sumly $1 million dollars for ”Abduction”, an original by Shawn Christensen, about a young man who learns his parents’ real identity. The script is being compared to “The Bourne Identity”.
Lautner will star in and produce the flick, says Deadline Hollywood Daily. In order to make Lautner’s July availability, the studio wants to hire a director pronto. If the film isn’t ready to go in time, Lautner will stay on as a producer but another young cat will star. So either way, the “Twilight” heartthrob gets a mighty stout paycheque.
Its a good thing that “My Own Worst Enemy” series was axed eh, Taylor!?
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