He’s definitely driven women crazy around the globe in his role as the hunky Jacob in the Twilight Saga, but it looks like Taylor Lautner has his eye on the Fifty Shades of Grey movie. Lautner is certainly a ladies’ man, and in the past he has been linked to a number of celebs, like Lily Collins, Taylor Swift, Selena Gomez and Sara Hicks. Taylor definitely has the rock hard body and classic good looks to pull off Christian Grey, yet at the tender age of 21 he’s considered too young to play the dominant 27 year-old. However, the Twilight star has also been linked with the part of latino hot-stuff José Rodriguez, which would be apt since he’s Fifty Shades’s answer to Jacob, although we think that perhaps Lautner is tired of being ‘friendzoned’.
The Twilight connection could potentially work, since Fifty Shades of Grey began life as Twilight fan fiction – only it took a kinky turn. The bestselling erotic trilogy tells the story of innocent Ana Steele, who gets involved with a dominant, steaming hot CEO who wants a relationship where the only chains involved are literal ones. Through their ‘contract’, Grey and Steele delve into the dark work of bondage and sadomasochism. Things are coming together, since the movie has a tentative release for August 2014, and now that Sam Taylor-Johnson has been selected as the director, and Kelly Marcel has finished the much awaited script, it looks like casting calls are finally being put out. Despite all the rumors concerning the casting, it looks like the producers want us to believe that maybe unknowns will be picked. Lautner has definitely earned a big name after the Twilight series, but it seems age is going to act against him. The official casting calls are asking for an actor aged 25-33, which is outside the 21 year-old’s range.
However, it’s not just Lautner who will be out of the game if the age bracket has anything to do with it. Ian Somerhalder who is a fan favorite is over the age limit, along with other popular candidate Matt Bomer. Henry Cavill falls within the range out of the top pick, but it looks like Universal Studios are leaning towards casting an actor who is unknown if the public casting call is anything to go by. One thing for sure is that things are moving forward, and hopefully we’ll know soon enough whether Taylor or another hunk is cast in the part.
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