Zac Efron plays a double role in the thriller “Famous”

In Hollywood, you can quickly end up in a box and have to struggle for a long time to get out of it and be taken seriously in other roles. Just as Robert Pattinson always chooses challenging roles to dusk-Image, so also wanted Zac Efron after the end of the High School Musical-Films around the world prove that he is more than just a pretty boy. In Extremely evil, shockingly evil and disgusting He played the serial killer Ted Bundy, in Bad neighbors and Mike and Dave need wedding dates he proved his comedy talent and at the latest his appearance as wrestler Kevin Von Erich in The Iron Claw Last year probably convinced the last skeptics.

His next film, the bestseller adaptation Famouswill give him two opportunities to prove his versatility. In the film by the eccentric director Jody Hill, who is best known as the creator of the series “East and down” and “Deputy Headmaster” As is well known, he will play both the Oscar-winning Hollywood superstar and heartthrob James Jansen and his obsessed fan Lance Dunkquist, who looks very similar to the actor. The novel for Famous is by Blake Crouch, whose science fiction novel “Dark Matter” was recently published by AppleTV+ was adapted as a series starring Joel Edgerton. “Mr. Robot”-Creator Sam Esmail, the last Netflix-Strike Leave the world behind you starring Julia Roberts and Ethan Hawke, and prestigious studio A24, which is also behind The Iron Claw produces the film.

With obsessed fans following his every move, Efron has known each other since his High School Musical-times, so his casting as a heartthrob and his own huge fan couldn't be more fitting.

Source: Deadline