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UPDATES EXCLUSIVE: Taylor Lautner To Be Paramount's Next Big Action Star
He's already Hollywood's highest paid teen. Pretty soon, he may also be Hollywood's richest teen. He's certainly Hollywood's hardest working teen. Universal has just cast the 17-year-old Twilight Saga star Taylor Lautner to play title character Stretch Armstrong based on the Hasbro toy. The studio is giving Stretch superhero powers in the new 3D franchise that is scheduled for release in 2012. Universal Pictures Chairman Adam Fogelson and Co-Chairman Donna Langley think Lautner is "the real deal" and are undaunted by all the other projects which Taylor also is launching, including the Max Steel franchise at Paramount and the 3rd and 4th installments of the Twilight Saga for Summit Entertainment, and other films.
“In the past two years, Taylor has emerged as a real star at the global box office. He brings the perfect balance of energy and athleticism to the role of an unlikely super hero with a fantastic super power,” said Langley. “We couldn’t be more pleased that he has agreed to be our Stretch.”
Agreed Brian Goldner, President and CEO of Hasbro: “The addition of Taylor Lautner and the 3-D twist to Stretch Armstrong is sure to pay dividends when the film is released in 2012.”
The studio said Stretch Armstrong is moving to 2012 "to allot time to shape the project into a 3-D superhero adventure and to accommodate Lautner’s existing commitments". Stretch Armstrong is based on the action figure popular around the world dating back to the 1970s and re-launched in the 1990s. Academy Award-winning producer Brian Grazer (A Beautiful Mind, 8 Mile, American Gangster) will team with Hasbro to produce. Steve Oedekerk (Bruce Almighty) has written the screenplay, and Hasbro’s Goldner and Schneir also produce.
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i’m obviously the only person who thinks this kid can’t act his way out of a wet paper bag. but i guess that doesn’t really matter anymore, because this biz is full of actors who can’t act.
this kid can act…he has been for years now obviously you are used to kiddy movies to make a statement like that…
More crap on the way.
…the hell?…Stretch Armstrong?…mmkay.
What a dumb sounding movie.
2012? You mean this is going up against “Barbie: The Motion Picture”, “Captain Action” and “Holly Hobbie: Kung Fu Princess”?
So, is Stretch Armstrong’s biggest foe going to be ‘Dried Out Cornsyrup Man’?
You know, cause that’s what killed all my old Stretch Armstrong dolls.
Also, I would imagine the demo from Twilight has NO crossover to the Stretch Armstrong demo…
This guy is box office gold. Shia watch out.
1. Stretch Armstrong. What?
2. Taylor Lautner. Who?
Way to go, Universal!
LOL
Nikki, what is your fascination with this guy? Are you tracking his career so you can keep posting photos of him with his shirt off?
I find it fascinating that Hollywood is touting him as a “real star” when he wasn’t even wanted for the Twilight sequel. I guess a six pack can get you more than a drunken buzz in this town.
Congratulations to Taylor. He has wanted to do superhero movies with lots of action and stunt work. At 17, he is still young enough to do a lot of physical work and recover easily. He can do more boring movie roles when he gets a bit older. Way to go, hardest working teen in Hollywood!
Very very true–I don’t think people should put Taylor down just becasue they are jelous. He is not only handsome and talented but also hard working, smart and from what I have heard/read–funny and sweet.
GOD BLESS!!!!
That is if he’s offered those roles when he gets older. He might perpetually be stuck in these kinds of movies if he doesn’t watch out lol.
Because Twilight Saga and Stretch Armstrong are fascinating!
Hollywood needs a reset.
No more action shit, talentless teenage stars, vampires, $200m budgets, packaged films, Avatars, 3-D, “reboots,” franchises, misplaced hype, etc… Actually, all of those things I just mentioned in some way point back to CAA @_@
I’d love to see a change in taste, or at least an elevation of it…European audiences don’t have this problem. Let’s see more films such as this year’s “Up in the Air.” And if we must have blockbusters, at least have them be well acted (see RDJ & Jude Law in this year’s “Shelock Holmes”).
Of course, we will always be f*cked sideways in America because movies are marketed at teenagers, and we must be careful not to surpass their underachieving heads. Let’s blame our education system for giving us comparative retards incapable of appreciating complex storytelling.
EXCUSE ME!!!! As a teen, I agree some are not the smartest in the world but most of us are still hard working smart teens who actually want something out of life. I would like to be a high school drama teacher and author so I can inspire other people.
I do agree that Hollywood does need to shift it’s focus; but I do still think we have some good movies and actors out there (Take Disney/Pixar’s “Up” for example) so you shouldn’t go bad mouthing something just because you don’t agree with it.
no, God, no.
his superpower is ‘he stretches’?
trust me, no
I’d like to see this kid bring in an audience headlining his own movie, one that is not part of the Twilight Saga. If that happens, then they can call him a global star.
What really matters in Hollywood is MONEY and the money movies make for stockholders of the media companies, NOT artsy fartsy movies that make zero. This isn’t 1930 any more; they’re making movies that make money. If audiences see teenagers with superhuman powers so what?
@lsb: You completely missed his point.
He might be making lots of money but will the franchises succeed? Probably not. I hope he knows what he wants to do when they don’t succeed because acting will be off the table. He needs to invest well.
Dear Hasbro,
Not every toy should be made into a movie.
Sincerely,
A Guy Whose Only Characteristic Is That He Is Made Of Rubber
Dear Hasbro,
But seriously. I’ve read the script.
Sincerely,
AGWOCITHIMOR
Wow, all this just for doing some sit-ups.
Hey, that’s unfair! I’m sure a lot of it is diet and genetics, too.
“Genetics”? Have you seen his father? Believe me, it’s not genetics. That boy is ugly, with a pug nose and small squinty eyes, has zero charisma, plus he is short. Not exactly action hero height.
Outside the Twilight saga (despite all Summit’s efforts for New Moon, he has not yet got Robert Pattinson’s popularity), his 3 next roles are similar, he will soon be typecast.
He is the most boring young actor in Hollywood. Can only speak about one thing: gym, fitness diet, abs.
He will be a huge action star when he gets a bit older, but a stretchy superhero? Ugh, cringe. Taylor could do better than that.
can somebody make a goddam Plastic-Man movie first?
And NOT the Wachowski Bros script?
Make it Goodfellas, except the Ray Liotta character gets hit with stretching the stretching chemical!
3D toy commercials!! bluarrgh
Jesus
I think its foolish for people to be betting the farm on him when he hasn’t proven any appeal outside Twilight. Even Robert Pattinson’s naked film didn’t do well, and if there is anything I thought fans of twilight might have wanted to see, it was that.
Can we please have a moratorium on casting Taylor in anything else until one of his movies comes out? Not that I care so much if movies fail, I just feel like these parts could go to other young talens who have acting talent.
Also, that pic above with the incongruos abs to neaderthalic/puppy dog face is, honestly, a little disturbing.
TOY BOY! TOY BOY!
Never before has there been a more aptly named cheesecake
Stretch Armstrong is based on the action figure popular around the world dating back to the 1970s and re-launched in the 1990s. Academy Award-winning producer Brian Grazer (A Beautiful Mind, 8 Mile, American Gangster) will team with Hasbro to produce.
Okay, make your dumb movies, fine, it’s your choice.
But you are not allowed to list your Oscars as if they were to give those dumb movies some kind of credibility.
FROM THE PRODUCERS WHO THOUGHT, DAMN IT, MICHAEL BAY IS MAKING MORE MONEY THAN ME, AND ALL I CAN DO WITH MY ACADEMY AWARDS IS TO POLISH THEM LIKE A KNOB, COMES…
… TOY BOY: THE MOVIE!
They will make a movie out of anything & use anyone if they think it has audience potential.
I think these roles are based on Taylor’s body and muscles and not on his “acting skills”…. because he doesn’t have any…
I was a child of the 90s and I remember this toy. Never in my life did I think I would see the day when Hollywood would make a major movie out of a twenty-year old rubber doll. I hope Universal loses their shirts. Taylor, I imagine, has already lost his.
Bahahahaha! Can’t stop laughing.
Nothing against the kid – but this just sounds awful lol.
Like some here, I go to far too many movies that I would never go see if my job did not require me to be current on what is playing in theaters. It gets quite depressing when I consider that the last three movie-house experiences that I really, truly enjoyed were the three most recent Metropolitan Opera Live in HD “Moviecasts”….
Absolutely ridiculous that this kid is getting roles. Young Hollywood is absolutely horrendous now. The likes of him and Megan Fox and the rest its just so sad.
and the shit parade continues. Awful idea for a film . And he can’t act. why not just do a 20 minute movie of focusing on his body and call it a day . Low budget- low brow, big bucks
He’s over promoted and the producers are over estimating his appeal. There will be tears……
so well said……
His stint on SNL should tell you everything…
Great looking guy, seems nice, but the ‘chops’ are in his abs, not his acting skills.
Holy Cow Batman! Sheesh, what a mess Hollywood is. And, please bring back Tobey as Spiderman. I am sick to death of these sparkly vampire kids.
Ok WTF? What the hell is that toy??Never heard of it really.
Look i’m a girl,18 years old and i don’t find him attractive AT ALL.
And if he got this role because of his body than those people are f*cked in their heads.
Rob is at least doing more mature films.
Especially Bel-Ami. I read that book and that would be a chalenge for him.
But this? No thanks.
I don’t care if there are tears. I just want to see Hollywood big shots lose money and/or their jobs over shoving this (ugly) child into our consciousness.
All I have to say about this idea is that it is MAS PUTO SQUARED!!!!! That is “mas puto” to the power of two.
When it takes 20 years to get an indie film made, that’s typical and the filmmakers shouldn’t give up if they really believe in the material. It’s not easy convincing financiers and distributors that art is worth taking a gamble on.
But when a conventional Hollywood film has been in Development for 20 years, that’s a sign that something is inherently wrong with the material. See Jerry Bruckheimer’s “Bad Company” or Disney’s “The Wild Life”. Sretch Armstrong was a bad idea for a movie 20 years ago, and it’s a terrible idea today.
And there is absolutely no overwhelming public nostalgia for the toy. At all. None. So where’s the marketing boost?
Lautner should fire his reps for signing him on to this.
I think his father sees $ signs. He is absolutely selling his son for a pot of gold. Or else, he is a genius and knows his son has limited acting time and is doing the best he can to go to the well before anyone catches on. ……. I’m going to go with the first one.
Agreed.
Taylor is good looking, hardworking and will be worth every penny he is paid. Nikki, please get a better picture of him up for the next Taylor scoop! Go Thor, Go Team Taylor!
Seriously?
Please… if some of you here wants to bash Taylor, then don’t mention Rob Pattinson at all… i am a Rob fan but i am happy for Taylor… they are hard working actors… let them do their job first then judge…
Why they think that Taylor is “bankable star”?
He didn’t make any movie yet where he had leading role.
And New Moon was succesful (in the beginning) because of books and Rob Pattinson.
You have got to be kidding me? They are going to make a movie from this stupid toy? LMAO….i had thought Taylor would have some brains in his head but after signing on for ANOTHER STUPID ACTION FILM…about a toy LMAO (i can’t stop laughing…what a joke this kid is). He can’t act…he has no appeal what so ever (not even his muscles)…i hope the studios that hire him lose everything…idiots lol
Sadly. this kid will grow up and he will be replaced by a younger version of himself. If I was his manager, I would advise him to get a role in the near future that shows he can truly act.
Proof? Long at the actors who has had a long career in Hollywood. They share one thing in common – roles that entirely consist of these ridiculous popcorn movies.
At least (if he gets bumped for the younger star) he’ll have plenty of money to find ways to kill the time.
No i think all you people are just jelous. You have to give stars a chance, it does not matter if you like them or not. Taylor is an ok actor so give him a chance you never know what he can do. Don’t question him because of what he looks like!
well he certainly has the muscles for the job. He will imprss all with his top off hey? xXx who thinks