Taylor Lautner to take on "Max Steel"

By Siewaun
Reference: Variety

Paramount has signed on Taylor Lautner ("Twilight," "New Moon") to star as "Max Steel," based on the Mattel toy property.

Introduced by Mattel in 1999, the action figure, Max Steel, was made into animated TV series which was aired from February 25, 2000 to January 15, 2002, with the total of thirty-five episodes.

The movie revolves around Josh McGrath, a 19 year old college student and an extreme sports star, who suffered an accident with Nanoprobes while working in an extreme sports articles manufacturing company which is in reality a facade for a secret counter-intelligence agency known as N-Tek. That gave him the ability to alter his appearance, turn invisible "Stealth mode !" and become super-strong "Going turbo !".

Screenplay will be written by Chad Damiani and J.P. Lavin "Capeshooters". No director has been attached at this time.