The Twilight World

Taylor Lautner  has been getting ready for the Oscars by attending Ari Emanuel’s  pre-Oscar party on the 6th March where he was rubbing shoulders with the rest of the A-Listers.

The LATimes reports:

William Morris Endeavor talent agency topper Ari Emanuel kicked off his Oscar weekend Friday with a celebration for clients and friends — including Taylor Lautner, Justin Timberlake, Ben Affleck, Jennifer Garner, Matt Damon, Mark Wahlberg, Janet Jackson, Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz, Victoria Beckham, Renee Zellwegerand Ryan Phillippe.

…Wahlberg greeted Lautner with a hug; the budding action star, clad in a black suit, stuck close to his WME agent, Thor Bradwell.

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Taylor "dissar" Max Steel för Stretch Armstrong. :D

The amount of work Taylor Lautner has been reeling in has been very impressive.  It’s not too surprising that two of his hottest projects came into conflict with each other.  According to New York Vulture, Taylor has had to scrape his plans to play Max Steel and is now just focusing on the Stretch Armstrong project.  The whole things boils down to Hasbro vrs Mattel.  In the end, Hasbro has the better track record and thus sealed the deal with Taylor.

From the article: Explained one insider familiar with Lautner’s decision: “When you sign up to make a movie with Hasbro, you know it will be in theaters a year later.”

“Max Steel” – The first post-”Twilight” starring role to break for Taylor, this proposed action series would star Lautner as the incarnation of a Mattel toy. Although the stunts would play into his wheelhouse, the character couldn’t be any more different from Jacob Black: Josh McGrath is a 19-year-old extreme sports star accidentally exposed to a swarm of microscopic nanomachines that give him superhuman powers. Fighting against super-powered villains, he reemerges as Max Steele, a seeming hybrid of Xander Cage, “The Six Million Dollar Man” and Cody Banks. Although the character is little-known in the states, he is based on a CGI-animated show that ran a few years ago, and if Lautner’s movie is a hit it could possibly spawn a franchise.

“Cancun” – Overseen by “Twilight” producer Wyck Godfrey, this flick is being targeted as Taylor’s first chance outside of the “Saga” to showcase the impressive martial-arts skills he’s been honing since before he had body hair. Lautner plays a teenager who takes off to Mexico for spring break with some buddies — but when a drug cartel kidnaps his girlfriend, it’s time to kick some ass and ask questions later. Unfortunately, Taylor is signing up for so many projects — with two “Breaking Dawn” films still likely this fall — that something might have to go, and “Cancun” could be that film. But if not, Taylor should start stocking up on the sunscreen, immediately.

“Stretch Armstrong” - Possibly the most promising of Taycob’s upcoming films, this rubbery character has been flirting with Hollywood for so long that such folks as Jackie Chan, Tim Allen and Danny DeVito were attached to play him around the turn of the century. Taylor signed on at the beginning of this month for the action movie — which will be made in 3-D and likely hit theaters in 2012. A mix between Reed Richards, Plastic Man and James Bond, Stretch is an uptight secret agent who takes an elongating concoction that makes him a superhero — but gives him hard-to-control superpowers. Based on the goofy elastic toy that every kid in the ’80s owned and every dog loved to chew, “Stretch Armstrong” will likely hit theaters after “Max Steel” and could also potentially become a franchise. It remains to be seen whether his weiner-dog sidekick Fetch Armstrong will also make the big screen.

“Abduction” - Imagine that when you’re drinking your next carton of milk, you look on the side at the picture and see … yourself? That’s the ripe premise behind this thriller, the latest film that Taylor has signed on to do. In the film, he plays a young man who realizes he has been living a lie when he discovers his own baby picture on a missing persons Web site. As he sets out to determine the truth behind his origin story, Taylor will aim to bring the thrills as fast as he did that six-pack for “New Moon.”