Taylor Lautner for the lead in Max Steel with UPDATE Filed under ( Max Steel, Paramount, Taylor Lautner )

Nikki Finke exclusively confirms Taylor will be playing the lead role in the Paramount screen adaptation of the hugely popular Max Steel, which began as a series of action figures in the ’90s. The franchise has since branched out into comic books, TV shows and animated DVDs.

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.



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.

Paramount hopes to capitalize on the franchise with a blockbuster live-action movie in the vein of the recent GI Joe and Transformers movies, so this role comes as a huge win for Taylor as they are putting a lot of trust into his star-power to pull in crowds for a big-budget flick.

Source: New Moon Movie

And this part is from LA Times via Empire 

In the minds of his older female Twilight fans, Taylor Lautner is already something of a toy boy. But he could be a literal toy if Paramount decides to cast him in its Max Steel film.


Nothing is anywhere close to official yet, so take this with the requisite pinch of rumour salt (it tastes like broken dreams, in case you were wondering), but the LA Times reports that the studio is considering him as teenage hero Max.

The Mattel toy line arrived in shops back in 1999 and featured an extreme sports athlete named Josh McGrath who is inadvertently exposed to nanobots. They give him super-strength, near-invulnerability and the power to change his appearance at will.

JP Lavin and Chad Damiani are penning the script, so the movie itself has only just started trundling through the halls of development hell. But you can see why Paramount would want the New Moon co-star - with luck, he is can attract his sizable female following and tie it to the Transformers action crowd. Let's just hope he keeps his shirt on a bit more if he takes the job...


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