For all his fans – and we know you are legion – there are those who harbour a secret hope that Taylor Lautner would be sent to film prison for his crimes against cinema. Well, now you might just get your wish, in a roundabout way, because he’s just become attached to star in Incarceron, which will see him living in a futuristic prison society.
Fox 2000 has the rights to adapt Catherine Fisher’s young adult novel, which finds a lad named Finn spending his life in a savage place he dreams of escaping. But then he discovers a crystal key that lets him communicate with the warden’s daughter, who is herself trapped in a world that looks like something out of the 17th century. Together the pair start to look for a way out from their respective captivities.
Given the source material, it’s not a shocker to see Fox 2000 locking down Lautner for something like this, as it certainly plays to his established target market. Writers Adam Cooper and Bill Collage, who polished Brett Ratner’s Tower Heist and have been scribbling away on Moby Dick for Timur Bekmambetov, are the men charged with getting Fisher’s story into script form.
Lautner, meanwhile, is busy shooting The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn (you might have heard of it) and has the John Singleton-directed thriller Abduction waiting in the wings for release.