EXCLUSIVE: I’ve learned that the Taylor Lautner juggernaut continues in Hollywood as this 18-year-old Twilight Saga action star and teen heartthrob just keeps booking movie after movie. Last year’s highest paid teenage actor (for a reported $7.5 million pay day in Universal’s Stretch Armstrong with Hasbro and Imagine) is starting off the new year by producing and starring in 2 new studio tentpoles during 2011.

I can scoop that Fox 2000 and New Regency each coughed up an 8-digit paycheck to work with 8-pack-abs Tay-Tay for his two only available time slots this year. Meanwhile, three top producers including Michael Bay and his Platinum Dunes are circling Taylor to star in their movies for 2012 and beyond.

That’s because of Lautner’s enormous Twi-hard fan base and reputation for aggressively promoting his films, and not because of any solo box office he’s done yet.

At Fox 2000, Lautner will play the lead role in Catherine Fisher’s novel, Incarceron, a sci-fi/fantasy novel. (Last March, Fox won a bidding war for the rights to the book which was published in the U.S. this November and jumped onto The New York Times bestseller list.) Lautner plays a character who lives his entire life in a savage and futuristic prison society. Now the filmmakers are looking to cast his love interest and the frontrunners are Blake Lively, Jennifer Lawrence, and Emma Watson. John Palermo Productions will produce (Wolverine, Drive) with Lautner’s own Quick Six production banner.

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Source :: Team Twilight
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