Zac Efron seems intent on moving away from his singing and dancing tween image and starring in more adult fare. Next, the bearded Efron will headline gritty action drama Die In A Gunfight, according to the folks at Deadline.com, via Darkhorizons.com.
Efron will play a "fight-prone and death-obsessed young society man who pursues a romance with the daughter of his father’s enemy." I met him a couple of months ago and he seemed very keen to headline some action films, after I pointed out that if he was around in the 80s, the studios would be throwing them at him.
There's no director attached as of yet, but he's also currently attracted to The Art of the Steal and a remake of the Swedish drug drama Snabba Cash, so it's still very much in development.