Variety is reporting Zac Efron is in negotiations for the starring role in The Lucky One, an adaptation of the Nicholas Sparks novel about an Iraq War veteran who believes he made it through three tours of duty thanks to a photograph he owns of a woman who’s a stranger to him. Naturally, he tries to find the woman when he returns home.
Jul 27
2010
12:46 AM ET
Zac Efron in talks to star in adaptation of Nicholas Sparks novel 'The Lucky One'
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GROSS. This movie sounds disgusting.
I read this book and its a lovely love story about to people brought together by fate..its a classic and orginal story…I’m a big fan of nickaols spark and love all his books so other people out their who read this I recamend you to buy one of his books:)
I want Zac to do action flicks not some sad novel turned into a movie
I guess it would be interesting to see him in an action flick, but I just want to see him in something fresh… something original… something with an edge.
There’s all this talk about him in a ‘Back to the Future-like’ film, but that, like ’17 Again’, isn’t very original. He hasn’t earned the right to hold or act with a gun (I wouldn’t buy it), BUT – I would buy him as a college graduate holding a joint. He should do a movie like ‘The Beach’, ‘The Stanford Prison Experiment’, or ‘Wall Street’… not this sentimental b.s. If he’s going to do a war film, he needs to enter ‘Stop/Loss’, ‘The Hurt Locker’, ‘Jarhead’ territory. I’m not a fan, but I think he’s talented and too good for this. Sparks grosses me out.
i agree! he needs to take a cue from young actors like Emille Hirsch, Joseph Gordon Levitt or Paul Dano chose a more mature film with a character he can sink his teeth into even if it is a small part like Emille’s in Milk.
Agreed.
Efron is becoming boring those days.
I read this book and liked it a lot, but the character (at least in my mind) was a lot more “dangerous” than cute little Zac Efron can pull off. I may be wrong though, I guess time will tell . . .
I haven’t read this book, but I’ll guess she’s dead or he dies trying to get to here … isn’t that how all Sparks’ books go?
i mean “get to HER” .. that’s what I get for posting before I’ve had coffee ..
This book isn’t just about love and u shouldn’t judge this book if u havnt read it..just because u read a lil article about this book doesn’t mean know what the whole book is about..and I think u readers should give this upcoming movie a try…
what’s it about then? care to enlighten?
schmaltzy, overly-sentimental, boring tripe, just like every other “novel” Sparks pinches off for his brainless fans. I hope Efron gets typecast in this sorta crap and has to resort to doing Lifetime movies in a few years.
After his Orsen Welles movie he should be doing better things. He is talented. I think I read Daniel Radcliffe turned this down.
I’m sorry I don’t buy him as any kind of military personnel…not even in a Nicholas Sparks adaptation.
I feel like he’s too young to play the character… I pictured the characters to be in their mid- to late-20s.
i actually think that the character is supposed to be in his thirties! the woman with the photograph has a son who is about eight or nine, i believe (late twenties) and he is supposed to be older than she is. are they going to remove the plot of her having a child??? i don’t see efron as a stepfather yet…
I would love to have him as my step father – if ya know what i’m sayin’…..
I love this book. However, I don’t think Zac is the right guy.
No Zac! Please don’t do a Nicholas Sparks movie. His writing is dreck (as Stephen King would say, haha). There hasn’t been a good Sparks movie since “The Notebook.”
sounds like his breakout vehicle for him….as long they get a great director and awesome screenplay writer…this could be a once in a lifetime casting for Efron…if its done right…