Zac Gets Dramatic

Earlier this week, Disney heartthrob Zac Efron bailed from the remake of 80s hit film “Footloose” in order to concentrate on meatier parts. Now he seems to have gotten his wish.

Variety reports Efron is in talks with director Burr Steers about a role in “The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud.” Steers previously directed the “High School Musical” star in “17 Again.” Variety states the film is taken from a book “about a caretaker at a cemetery who manages to have weekly meetings with a younger brother whose accidental death he feels was his fault.”

Meanwhile, Efron can be seen in “17 Again” when it debuts April 17. It takes guts for a teen idol to risk re-inventing himself as an adult star. Let’s hope Zac’s risk pays off.

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