Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019)

[Samus Aran]

He has the chops to do it. But he also has his comfort zone of insanely stupid movies. It's not like McConaughey where he showed his acting ability, then did a bunch of stupid comedies, then went back to serious stuff. Efron started at the stupid comedies.

Efron is fine in serious roles like At Any Price, he's just not memorable.

[AaronJ]

Originally Posted by Samus Aran

He has the chops to do it. But he also has his comfort zone of insanely stupid movies. It's not like McConaughey where he showed his acting ability, then did a bunch of stupid comedies, then went back to serious stuff. Efron started at the stupid comedies.

Efron is fine in serious roles like At Any Price, he's just not memorable.

He's pretty memorable in roles like The Paperboy and Parkland.

[Petra_Kalbrain]

It will likely be his one chance to prove himself in a dramatic role. If he succeeds, he could have an illustrious career full of great opportunities. If he fails, he'll be working with Seth Rogen type filmmakers for the rest of his days as a clown without circus makeup.

I'll give anyone a chance to prove themselves in a new/challenging genre. However, they had better put in the work to make their performance worthy of the opportunity. Otherwise, they tend to drop off of my radar completely.

[Luke B.]

Originally Posted by Petra_Kalbrain

It will likely be his one chance to prove himself in a dramatic role. If he succeeds, he could have an illustrious career full of great opportunities. If he fails, he'll be working with Seth Rogen type filmmakers for the rest of his days as a clown without circus makeup.

I'll give anyone a chance to prove themselves in a new/challenging genre. However, they had better put in the work to make their performance worthy of the opportunity. Otherwise, they tend to drop off of my radar completely.

I thought he already did this in the adaptation of Nicholas Sparks's The Lucky One, but for sure it'll be interesting to watch him do a real challenging role such as this. I like him since I saw in on HSM on my childhood, and he deserves much more than those stupid comedies he's been doing lately.

[Gamma_Winstead]

That's a fascinating choice of role for him. Hopefully it works out well and we get a good film out of it