Taylor Lautner takes lead for ‘Incarceron’ movie

(HMG Celebrity News) – Aside from the final two Twilight Saga films being directed by Bill Condon, Taylor Lautner has landed another juicy lead role in the Fox 2000 adaptation of the Catherine Fisher young adult novel, ‘Incarceron’, according to Deadline Hollywood. Lautner will play Finn, who has lived his entire life on Incarceron, a savage, futuristic prison society.  He meets Claudia, the daughter of the warden, who is trapped in her own prison, a futuristic world constructed beautifully to look like the 17th Century.  She knows nothing of Incarceron except that it exists. She and Finn simultaneously find a crystal key that allows them to communicate and hatch an escape plan for Finn. The film is being written by Adam Cooper & Bill Collage, who are among the writers behind the Brett Ratner-directed Universal comedy Tower Heist, and who are writing Moby Dick for Timur Bekmambetov and Moses for Fox and Peter Chernin.  The film will be produced by John Palermo and Lautner is likely to become involved as a producer as well according to Deadline, but no director is attached to the film yet.  Lautner, has recently wrapped up the John Singleton-directed thriller Abduction, from Lionsgate. and is also booked to star as Stretch Armstrong in the Universal Pictures/Hasbro film.