TA FOLLOWS THE STARS: TAYLOR THE ACTION STAR AND A SUNDANCE UPDATE
We have another great TA Follows the Stars for you this morning. First we have word that Taylor Lautner is going to be picking up a great action role as Max Steel. Then we have Kristen Stewart, Dakota Fanning and Ashley Greene all with movies headed to the Sundance Film Festival. Check out more below:
First, Taylor Lautner is said to be taking the lead as Max Steel:
Paramount has confirmed to me exclusively that it’s hired 8-pack-abs Taylor Lautner for the lead in Max Steel, instantly creating perhaps the next young big action star. (The Twilight Saga phenom is only 17 years old, and the Summit Entertainment folks predicted to me a year ago that he’d end up in demand for this kind of role after he bulked up for New Moon.) This is the Joe Roth-produced project based on the hugely successful Mattel property that’s an international bestseller. The movie will receive a major push planned as Mattel raises its stateside presence with the Paramount release. I’m told Max Steel will be a four-quadrant popcorn movie in the spirit of Iron Man about a 19-year-old extreme sports junkie recruited by a secret agency after an accident infects his body, leaving him with superhuman powers.
Read more from Nikki Finke at Deadline Hollywood here.
The Runaways will be shown at the Sundance Film Festival as part of the non-competition line-up:
On Thursday, December 3, Sundance Institute has announced movies which are included on the non-competition line-up of the 26th Sundance Film Festival. Among the list, there are “The Runaways”, a biopic starring Dakota Fanning and Kristen Stewart.
Read more here.
Welcome To The Rileys starring Kristen Stewart has been entered at the Sundance Film Festival in the US Dramatic Competition category:
One film sure to make a splash at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, whether it is liked or not, is Jake Scott’s Welcome to the Rileys starring James Gandolfini, Kristen Stewart and Melissa Leo and I have your first five looks at the film. Yes, it’s because it stars the Twilight star Kristen Stewart, but it’s the role she is playing that is going to attract watchful eyes.Stewart plays a lap dancer and prostitute in the film, which follows a damaged man (Gandolfini) who seeks salvation while on a business trip to New Orleans. Salvation is apparently sought by caring for Stewart’s character, Mallory, a troubled young woman. Gandolfini’s character and his wife (Leo) were driven apart by grief after losing their daughter.
Read more at Rope Of Silcon here.
Ashley Greene’s Skateland has also been entered at the Sundance Film Festival in the US Dramatic Competition category:
Skateland (Director: Anthony Burns; Screenwriters: Anthony Burns, Brandon Freeman, Heath Freeman)—In the early 1980s, in small-town Texas, dramatic events force a 19-year-old skating rink manager to look at his life in a very new way. Cast: Shiloh Fernandez, Ashley Greene, Heath Freeman, Taylor Handley, AJ Buckley, Haley Ramm. World Premiere
Read more here.
I’m excited to see these movies that will be shown at the Sundance Film Festival! And Go Taylor!
What do you think of Taylor as Max Steel? Are you going to see The Runaways, Welcome To The Rileys or Skateland?
