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Zac Efron: Me and Orson Welles

Zac Efron: Me and Orson Welles

Zac Efron is scoring major movie deals right and left!!!

While grabbing a bite to eat at North Hollywood’s Aroma Cafe on Saturday, Zac, 19, hid behind a tape-bound script for screenplay Me and Orson Welles, provided by his agency, Creative Artists Agency (CAA).

Zac would play 17-year-old Richard Samuels whose theatrical dreams are answered when Orson Welles offers him a small role in his Broadway debut of Julius Caesar (The film would be set in the 1930s).

Speaking of 17, earlier this week, Zac landed his first leading-man role in fast-tracked love story, Seventeen.

According to Entertainment Weekly, Seventeen is about a 36-year-old man, in need of a major life do-over, who wakes up in the body of a studly high school senior (Efron).

Zac will reunite with Hairspray director Adam Shankman, who is producing with his real-life sister, Jennifer Gibgot.

Gibgot has been working on expanding Zac‘s fanbase by transitioning him from the tween crowd to the more mature crowd: ”It’s a very multilayered role, which is what attracted Zac to this idea. It’s a good transitional movie that will appeal to his audience and hopefully bring in more adults.”

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Credit: Entertainment Weekly; Photos: Jsm/Bm/Zfi/Bauer-Griffin
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