UPDATE! The Hollywood Reporter reports that the name of the flick is "Cancun".
Summit isn’t letting Taylor Lautner free himself from their fiscally minded grip.... just yet.
The “Twilight” star (who still has another film in that series to complete before he’s free to ditch the six-pack) is being lined up to star in an actioner, written by Eric Champnella and Grant Thompson, that is best described as a teen-aged “Taken” meets “Die Hard”, says Variety.
Lautner’s father Dan is one of the producers.
After an injury sidelines a teen’s plans to be an elite soldier, he tries to get on with his life by heading to college. There, he meets a girl who convinces him to join her friends on a spring break trip to Cancun. When his traveling partners are kidnapped and ransomed for the freedom of a drug cartel leader about to be extradited, the college student uses his warrior skills to rescue them.
Lautner recently agreed to front Paramount’s “Max Steel”.
