Action thriller Abduction didn’t offer Twilight star Taylor Lautner the breakout hit he was looking for, but that hasn’t stopped interest in him coming from a decidedly leftfield figure.
The Hollywood Reporter brings news that none other than indie-centric director Gus Van Sant is in the process of working out a deal to direct a low-budget feature based on a nonfiction article in The New Yorker magazine that Lautner himself has sourced, with an eye to produce. That’s all for the moment, detail-wise, but a writer is expected to be announced soon, with a production date pencilled in for sometime in the early part of 2012.
This might initially look like an odd couple Hollywood pairing, but it’s worth noting that the director was able to elicit a fine performance from the similarly impassive Keanu Reeves in the cult classic, My Own Private Idaho.
Lautner is eyeing up various other high-profile A-list features at the moment, but maybe this could be the career move which could be most beneficial to him.
