Zac Efron is your next action hero?

[jjbsn5192]

Originally Posted by WyldeMan45

Zac Efron is set to headline Universal’s upcoming flick Fire, which will be adapted from Brian Michael Bendis’ graphic novel. The original property tells the tale of an ordinary college kid who’s recruited into a top-secret CIA training program that specializes in turning regular folks into superspies. In addition to starring, Efron will also exec produce alongside his manager, Jason Barret.

You heard right, people. Zac Efron is your next action hero. Stay tuned to Collider to find out which of the Four Horseman touches down on Earth first…my money’s on Pestilence. Joking aside, this is a natural next step for the High School Musical star. He got his first real taste of solo box office success with last spring’s 17 Again, a film that very much appealed to his HSM audience. Now it’s time to take away the safety net. It’s difficult to gauge just how willing the action crowd will be to embrace him. However, stepping into the role of an average guy who’s gradually transformed into an action hero throughout the course of a film is probably the best way possible to attempt the transition from singing-dancing tween pin-up to major-league ass-kicker. We’ll see if it’s enough. Source

Never..

and No Thank You.

[WyldeMan45]

Originally Posted by Sabotage

Better him then that stupid ass clown Shia Labuef. I can't take anything that guy does seriously. He doesn't look nor sound intimidating, yet he's in all these various action movies.

You would seriously prefer the boy who sings and dances in High School Musical disney movies over Shia? Wow....................

[WyldeMan45]

Efron has made a separate deal at Warner Bros to star in a Back To The Future-like film that melds two projects. One’s a pitch from writers Tim Calpin and Kevin Jakubowski, and the other is a WB project called Algorithm that the studio was already developing. Nick Stoller, the Forgetting Sarah Marshall director who just wrapped Get Him To The Greek, will produce along with Mark Gordon and Bryan Zuriff. Alan Riche is exec producer along with Efron and Barrett.

Efron’s quest to be taken seriously, and to shed the teen heartthrob label thrust upon him after a trio of hit High School Musical films, really began when he bailed on a Footloose remake to instead re-team with his 17 Again director Burr Steers in The Death And Life Of Charlie St. Cloud, playing a young man who carries the guilt over the death of his younger brother. It isn't easy, as one of the films he made recently, Me and Orson Welles, was barely seen. But he wasn't looking for box office as much as the chance to be part of a strong cast in an art film. Good for him.

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[P@t_Mtl]

Originally Posted by tarik

sounds like bourne the teenage years!

:d

[Fabio13]

Originally Posted by Wolverine1980

Just say no to Hollywood's next attempt at making a "pretty boy" into an action star like they did with Orlando Bloom and Jude Law.

Wich movies are you thinking about. I can´t say I´ve seen any of them in any action movies.

On topic. I´m actually intrigued watching how this kid would do in an action movie.

[Satans Puppet]

So it's urrrrrr Alias the Movie?

[Yautja]

Can't really imagine this guy as an action hero

[WyldeMan45]

Originally Posted by Yautja

Can't really imagine this guy as an action hero

He looks like the slightly older, slightly gayer version of Danny Madigan from Last Action Hero

[Rblu-Dblu]

Originally Posted by Satans Puppet

So it's urrrrrr Alias the Movie?

Not even. JJ Abrams would never pick that kid.