Twilight's Taylor Lautner to sink his teeth into Gus van Sant film

Taylor Lautner will star in and produce Gus van Sant's new film, according to The Hollywood Reporter . Details of the film's plot, which is apparently based on a non-fiction New Yorker article optioned by the Twilight star , are scarce. But the source of the material, plus Milk director Van Sant's indie credentials would suggest that Lautner is attempting a move away from the mainstream that made him. With a price tag of $7.5m per film, he's currently the highest paid teenage actor in Hollywood, but his first solo lead (in John Singleton's thriller Abduction ) received a critical drubbing and performed fairly poorly at the box office. Lautner and his father, Don, will produce the Van Sant film through their Quick Six company. Production is due to start early next year.