Rumour: Taylor Lautner and Chace Crawford Eyed For Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell

Fans of Twilight and Gossip Girl will be gleaming with delight at the prospect of Chace Crawford and Taylor Lautner appearing in the same film together after rumours circulated that the pair are set to sign up to star in Reichen Lehmkuhl’s 2006 memoir Here’s What We’ll Say: Growing Up, Coming Out.

The film will focus on Lehmkuhl’s time in the US Air Force where his involvement with the Academy under the name ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’, shows his struggles where he found a secret group of gay cadets who would meet and agree on what they would say should someone be outed.
Producer Lalo Vasquez said that Crawford and Lautner were top of the list of young actors to star in the project in which no offers have been as of yet while the financial group and director is still yet to be decided. Vasquez said:

“Reichen’s story is definitely the through line of the movie. We just wanted to open it up so it speaks to everyone and not just someone interested in the book. We believe that it has a huge canvas.”

It’s a project that means so much for Vasquez and his colleagues, who auctioned the book with their own money to prove to the movie business they wanted their first feature as producers to mean something more than just make-believe.

“We’re starting from the ground up, and it’s a fight, it’s a topic that some people are afraid to touch, because it means they’re choosing a side.”

Lehmkuhl is a producer working on the film and works closely with the writer of his story. However the involvement of Crawford AND Lautner could be crucial in the film getting noticed especially by the supportive female audiences who have obsessed over the pair for the last couple of years.
Source: EW