After famously beefing up his physique to keep the role of werewolf Jacob Black in The Twilight Saga, Taylor Lautner will be getting a lot thinner in his next big movie.
The New Moon beefcake has signed on to play Stretch Armstrong in an upcoming movie about the classic Hasbro toy that, well, stretched, and then snapped back into shape. Sounds like T-Laut will really be showing his flexibility as an actor for this thing.
Perhaps even more exciting, the film, which will be released by Universal sometime in 2012, will be filmed in suddenly-popular-again 3-D technology. Shades of Sharkboy?
In a statement... (
Science)