Taylor Lautner's in an odd position. He's insanely popular, has a whole slew of big films that he's attached to star in (and which he'll be paid inordinate amounts of money for), but he's still completely unproven outside the franchise that made him famous - namely Twilight. While he's got Abduction in the can, that doesn't come out until next September, so it's still unknown if he's got what it takes when he's not being a werewolf.
Nevertheless, he's not letting that stop him lining up movies, with Deadline reporting that he's reached a deal to star in Incarceron, Fox 2000's adaptation of Catherine Fisher's young adult novel.
Incarceron is a rather intruiging mix of fantasy and sci-fi, about a young boy called Finn (Lautner) who lives in a vast, decaying prison that is virtually a living building, controlled by computers. While most of the people there have been inside for so many generations that they no longer believe there is an outside, Finn thinks that's where he came from. He then finds a way to communicate with a girl outside the prison, who has problems of her own, as she's been condemned to an arranged marriage in a world that computers have made to seem like a perfect recreation of the 17th Century.
It's all sound a bit City Of Ember mixed with Logan's Run, but it's certainly an intriguing set-up for a movie.
As yet no director is attached, and it's uncertain when the film might get made. Lautner is also attached to play Stretch Armstrong for Universal, as well a several films he's developing through his production company. As yet it not known which will come first after Twilight: Breaking Dawn finishes shooting.