Taylor Lautner Attached to Fox’s ‘Incarceron’

Taylor Lautner, actor and heartthrob, has lined up his first post-Twilight role. Which, yes, won’t be his only non-Twilight role (see: Valentine’s Day, Abduction (to be released next year)), but it’s important because it will be the rebound, so to speak. Or rather, the I’m-moving-on. You see where I’m going with this.
Anyway, the movie is Incarceron, which, yes, is an adaptation of a young adult fantasy novel, although in this case, by “fantasy” we mean “sci-fi”. It’s different sometimes.
Incarceron is a prison so vast that it contains not only cells, but also metal forests, dilapidated cities, and vast wilderness. Finn, a seventeen-year-old prisoner, has no memory of his childhood and is sure that he came from Outside Incarceron. Very few prisoners believe that there is an Outside, however, which makes escape seems impossible.
And then Finn finds a crystal key that allows him to communicate with a girl named Claudia. She claims to live Outside- she is the daughter of the Warden of Incarceron, and doomed to an arranged marriage. Finn is determined to escape the prison, and Claudia believes she can help him. But they don’t realize that there is more to Incarceron than meets the eye. Escape will take their greatest courage and cost more than they know. [Penguin]

Author Catherine Fisher has a second book (Sapphique) out this month, so it doesn’t look like Lautner will have to worry about work any time soon.

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