DEADLINE HOLLYWOOD REPORTED THE FOLLOWING TODAY:
TAYLOR LAUTNER UPDATE: Universal Pays Him Top Dollar For 'Stretch Armstrong'; 'Northern Lights' Loses Him "Over Casting Issues"; 2 Movies Now Wooing Him For That April Slot
By Nikki Finke Friday February 19, 2010 @ 5:10pm
EXCLUSIVE: I've learned that after 5 PM today, bidders will be told who won that Taylor Lautner-attached script Abducted which the new motion picture lit agency Verve sent out for its client Shawn Christensen. (At one point, Lionsgate had an exclusive negotiating window but couldn't agree on terms.) Meanwhile, there's a lot more Lautner news. He and Skydance's flyboy movie Northern Lights have "respectfully parted ways over casting issues", sources tell me, noting, "Taylor's people want to step up and put the best actors and directors around him." (I hear the Northern Lights project will continue to move forward without Lautner...) Now 5 more movies have been offered to the Twilight Saga's 18-year-old co-star, including 2 for that open April slot. As for that new salary Skydance had offered him for Northern Lights, I've learned that Universal paid him that sum to play the title role in Stretch Armstrong. It's good to be Taylor right now. (And let me talk you off the ledge if you're not.)
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