Zac Efron - Zac News Thread #40 - because Live from New York ... It's Zac Efron!

nyychick2 · 04-08-2009, 10:16 PM

Recent News & Appearances

Zac's Pool Party
Zac Efron's Pool Party from Zac Efron, Thomas Lennon, Nicole Sullivan, Vanessa Hudgens, Justin Long, Brody Jenner, Nicole Richie, Joel Madden, Jessica Stroup, Brittany Snow, Carmen Electra, Queen Latifah, Lance Bass, and Abby Pivaronas

Showest (April 2nd, 2009)

YouTube - Efron, Miller Honored at ShoWest
Zac Efron Interview - ShoWest's Breakthrough Performer Video - About.com
YouTube - Zac Efron, ShoWest 2009 - Breakthrough Performer of the Year

The Graham Norton Show (March 26th, 2009)

LOTTO UK

Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeway (March 21st, 2009)

Interview Magazine (April 2009)

Rove (March 15th, 2009)

81st Academy Awards (February 22, 2009)

"The Musical is Back" Performance Video

Zac Efron presenting with Alicia Keys ~ Best Original Score & Best Original Song

Access Hollywood Interview

66th Annual Golden Globes (January 11, 2009)

Presenting with Hayden Panettiere: Globe for Actor TV Series-Drama

Hayden Panettiere & Zac Efron presenting the Actor TV Series-Drama in Golden Globe Awards 2009

Upcoming Appearances:

April 11th, 2009 - Saturday Night Live Host

April 13th, 2009 - The Today Show

April 13th, 2009 - The View

April 13th, 2009 - David Letterman

April 14th, 2009 - 17 Again L.A. premiere - 6:00 p.m. at Grauman's Chinese Theater; 6925 Hollywood Blvd in Hollywood.

April 15th, 2009 - Ellen

April 16th, 2009 - Jimmy Kimmel Live

Most Recent:

Saturday Night Live

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Press Releases of Note

Bill Hader was on Bill Simmons' podcast today and he mentioned the final four hosts of the SNL season are: Seth Rogen, Zac Efron, Justin Timberlake, and Will Ferrell. You've got to like the fact that JT is coming back, he's always dynamite. It will also be interesting to see if Efron is funny as I don't frequent the High School Musical fare.

Big Hitter: Upcoming SNL Hosts, Where The Wild Things Are Trailer, and More! - Film.com

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The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud

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Zac Efron is negotiating to re-team with "17 Again" director Burr Steers on an adaptation of the novel "The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud."

The film will likely be the next for Efron, who just ankled Paramount's "Footloose" remake.

Former "Good Morning America" exec producer Ben Sherwood wrote the 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.

Marc Platt is producing, and while Efron's deal is still being negotiated, Steers is set and has already begun polishing a script originally written by Craig Pearce, with James Schamus and Lewis Colick also turning in drafts.

Production will begin in July. The Efron-Steers collaboration "17 Again" will be released by New Line/Warner Bros. on April 17.

Paramount is meeting other actors to topline the Kenny Ortega-directed "Footloose," which the studio still expects will be on its 2010 release schedule.

A script rewrite for "Footloose" was turned in by Susannah Grant, and the studio is firming up music plans. Four songs from the original film will be used, and six new tunes will be added, from various artists. The film will not be a burst-into-song musical, though the heroine in the new film will be a singer.

Zac Efron ready for new 'Life' - Entertainment News, Film News, Media - Variety

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Zac Efron Holds Meetings With The Dead

Zac Efron is out of Footloose and looking for something more serious. Variety says he’s negotiating to topline The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud, based on a novel whose cover has autumn colors and a falling leave on it. That kind of cover folks, is the stuff Oscars (or at least movies Oprah loves), are made of.

The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud is about a cemetery caretaker who survives a tragic accident and suddenly sees the world in a whole new way. That new way of seeing the world includes having weekly meetings with his dead little brother. The description on the book cover claims it contains “a love that transcends everything you may have believed about life and death.” Yep. It’s that kind of movie.

I really want to hate Efron for his lingering association with Disney’s High School Musical cash-cow, but the guy deserves credit. He’s avoided being turned into a male Miley Cyrus clone by mixing up those Disney puff-flicks with more serious and interesting stuff. He was great in Hairspray and later this year he’ll be in an Orson Welles pic directed by Orson Linklater. Say what you want about High School Musical but with choices like this Zac Efron may have the chops to stick around.

Zac Efron Holds Meetings With The Dead

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Determined not to be typecast as the-teenage-boy-who-sings, Zac Efron may have discovered the perfect dark, depressing, grown-up role for his career.

The super pretty actor is planning to re-team with 17 Again director Burr Steers for an adaptation of the novel "The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud," according to Variety.

The book, written by "Good Morning America" producer (and apparent Renaissance man) Ben Sherwood, is about a cemetery caretaker who talks to dead people. Zac's depiction of the role won't be completely Bruce Willis, though - he can only communicate with his younger brother, whose accidental death he blames himself for. Nothing like keepin' those dead people around to clear your conscience!

Production on the movie doesn't begin until July, so Zac will have a few more months to finish being 17 Again.

Zac Efron To Rebirth His Career With Creepy Cemetery Movie - Socialite Life

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Johnny Quest rumors

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Now it looks like the rumors are true and that the plum role is going to Zac Efron, the 21-year-old pretty-boy star who is hoping the action role will help him dance away from youth-pop vehicles and whip up a career-redefining franchise in the Indiana Jones mode. (Dwayne Johnson is circling the project as well and would be the brawny version of pilot and man-of-action Race Bannon.)

The choice of Efron is going to stir up fans of the classic Quest series because, well, Jonny was just an 11-year-old in the prime-time cartoons of the 1960s that so deftly pulled on Milton Canniff, Ian Fleming and Rudyard Kipling for their spirit of exotic adventure. I myself think it's a surprising but interesting choice, and I'm one of the people in town who think Efron (like Justin Timberlake) has a big future ahead of him and that people will look back on his frothy Disney duty as just the early steps in the choreography of his career. Making Jonny older will change the property, to be sure, but maybe it will make it richer as well.

'Jonny Quest' gets Zac Efron but loses its name? | Hero Complex | Los Angeles Times

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Moviehole sent Robert Sanchez over to meet The Rock a few weeks back at the “Race to Witch Mountain” Junket.

Always wearing the scoop badge, Robert came back with an exclusive bit of upcoming film news : Seems Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson, “Race” director Andy Fickman, and “High School Musical” moppet Zac Efron are teaming up for a feature film version of the cartoon classic “The Adventures of Johnny Quest”!

Johnson confirms that he’ll be Race Bannon, and that rumours suggesting Zac Efron might be Johnny Quest are on the money. Efron isn’t a lock though – and Johnson’s all ears.

Moviehole. The Rock in Jonny Quest movie

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Warner Bros. is working on a live action version of Jonny Quest. That’s an idea that should go over just about as well as Speed Racer did, unless of course they cast a really big name to carry the pic. And hey, it sounds like that’s just what Warner Bros. is trying to get.

Moviehole reports that WB may cast Zac Efron to play Jonny Quest, and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson to play the Quest team’s designated heavy Race Bannon. Purists should have no problem with Rock, he’s the right build and he’s the kind of box office draw which Speed Racer didn’t have. Efron though, is likely to put fans in an uproar.

In the original Jonny Quest cartoons, Jonny is a kid. Age 12. Zac Efron is 22. But he’s a big star, courtesy of the High School Musical franchise. Like The Rock, he’ll bring in a crowd and it’s easy to see why Warner Bros. might want a big name rather than some unknown, 12-year-old kid. Besides, Efron can pass for at least 16 or 17. That’ll have to be close enough.

Directing the movie, according to IESB may be Andy Fickman. He’s just finished directing The Rock’s lastest movie, Disney’s Race to Witch Mountain.

Zac Efron And The Rock To Star In Jonny Quest

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Hairspray 2 & Ohio rumors

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What about Hairspray 2?

Zac: Hairspray 2, yeah, I read something about that, I think it's an idea at this point, but once again I haven't really been in very many discussions about it, so I don't know if it's going to happen. It would be fun, it would be great!"

Zac talks about Hairspray 2

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Adam Shankman: ” Its on track. Lets put it that way. Hairspray 2 is on track. And I love that there is energy and appetite for it. That’s really cool…”

YouTube - Adam Shankman - The man behind Bedtime Stories & Hairspray 2

*PassionateJ* · 04-08-2009, 10:39 PM

Love the title! Thanks for opening Molly.

yagirlbee925 · 04-09-2009, 12:07 AM

Thanks for opening && updating the OP love

Gaaaaaaah title, can't believe we're getting it

paulaE · 04-09-2009, 01:40 AM

so excited for SNL, hope its on YT really quickly i cant wait to see it!

blackgreywhite · 04-09-2009, 04:22 AM

Thanks for the new thread Molly!

Love the title, so excited for SNL

Oh, and i finished reading The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud.

Yes, i was supposed to be reading my Dickens for uni - shhh!

bettybaby · 04-09-2009, 04:58 AM

OMG, OMG, OMG, OMG, OMG.........Its almost here........thanks for the new thread molly

when i saw the title.........

LIVE FROM NEW YORK IT'S SATURDAY NIGHT........

Featuring Fred Armisen, Abby Elliott, Will Forte........

AND YOUR HOST.........ZAC EFRON..............

oh god! btw, i check the SNL website, they do have a photo gallery of what they call "Photo Bumpers"

which leads me to another

b/c GQ!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Shut Up as rach would say.

kat!!!!!!!!!!!!

i have the book too, but i'm holding it for vacation

can't wait to read it.

*PassionateJ* · 04-09-2009, 05:43 AM

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Originally Posted by blackgreywhite (View Post)

Oh, and i finished reading The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud.

Yes, i was supposed to be reading my Dickens for uni - shhh!

What did u think of it Kat?

Can we add the ShoWest interview with Billy Bush to the OP?

misskristen · 04-09-2009, 06:02 AM

only 2 more days till SNL!

Fearlessღ · 04-09-2009, 06:11 AM

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Originally Posted by jessica3311 (View Post)

What did u think of it Kat?

Can we add the ShoWest interview with Billy Bush to the OP?

If we do, we need to take something else out. It takes a long time to scroll down

*PassionateJ* · 04-09-2009, 06:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Fearlessღ (View Post)

If we do, we need to take something else out. It takes a long time to scroll down

Well the GG has been a while. Or the Niel Merron article about Footloose/HS2 since thats old and Zac doesnt directly talk about it...and he's not doing Footloose anymore.

blackgreywhite · 04-09-2009, 06:41 AM

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Originally Posted by jessica3311 (View Post)

What did u think of it Kat?

Spoiler tags just in case.

Spoiler:

*PassionateJ* · 04-09-2009, 07:03 AM

Kat thanks for your input on it.

I was just talking about this to Lanie last night that I need to read the book this summer

jeezbee · 04-09-2009, 07:05 AM

Thanks, Kat for your take on the book.

If you want to condense the OP, I have a YT clip which has the 3 Rove clips from the OP in one which might help a bit:
YouTube - Zac Efron on Rove 15 March 2009 (HD)

*PassionateJ* · 04-09-2009, 08:24 AM

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Originally Posted by jeezbee (View Post)

Thanks, Kat for your take on the book.

If you want to condense the OP, I have a YT clip which has the 3 Rove clips from the OP in one which might help a bit:
YouTube - Zac Efron on Rove 15 March 2009 (HD)

Great idea Bee! Thanks

V-Nessa · 04-09-2009, 09:07 AM

Thanks for the new thread!


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