Taylor Lautner To Play In Action Movie

Gaining success after playing Jacob Black in Summit Entertainment’s “Twilight” and its sequel “The Twilight Saga’s New Moon”, Taylor Lautner is on board to star in the studio’s new action movie project. According to Variety, Summit has picked up an untitled script written by Eric Champnella and Grant Thompson that is described as a teenage version of “Taken” meets “Die Hard”.

In the film, Taylor will play a teenager who tries to rescue his friends when they’re abducted while on spring break in Cancun. After an injury sidelines his plans to be an elite soldier, he tries to get on with his life by heading to college. There he meets a girl who convinces him to join her friends on a spring-break trip to Cancun. When his traveling partners are kidnapped and used as bargaining chips to free a drug lord, he puts his training to use to free them.