Yet another Taylor Lautner movie in the making

Filed under: Entertainment, Sympatico — D.I.S.H. @ 11:27 am on February 22, 2010

It’s a revolving door of potential projects for Taylor Lautner. The Twilight teen wolf is so in demand right now, it seems studios are practically throwing scripts at him, with a lot of money attached to the deals. This is remarkable not only because of Lautner’s young age but, as reporters, bloggers and commenters have repeatedly pointed out, the 18-year-old actor has yet to prove he can carry a film on his own. Still, the offers continue.

Lautner has stepped back from Skydance’s pilot movie, Northern Lights, for which he was expected to be paid $7.5 million . Deadline Hollywood says actor and studio have “respectfully parted ways over casting issues” but that five more movies have been offered to the star. One of these is Abduction.

The spec script sold to Lionsgate for nearly $1 million (a lot of money on the current film market) with Lautner attached to star. Deadline says his Tailor Made production company is also co-producing and that the film is being fasttracked to meet his July availability. If that doesn’t work Tailor Made will still produce but hire another actor for the lead.

Deadline and EmpireOnline say the script is about a teen who has long felt disconnected from his parents. He figures out why when he discovers his baby picture on a missing persons website and realizes everything he knows is wrong. A chain of Bourne-like events and discoveries ensues.

Lautner is also attached to star in Universal’s Stretch Armstrong and Paramount’s Max Steel.