Zac Efron to be star of Marvel’s next franchise?
By Josh Haggis
Zac Efron is reportedly being lined up to star in an upcoming Marvel Studios project.
Marvel owners Disney are rumoured to be interested in the actor after his latest film Bad Neighbours opened at Number One at the box office in both the UK and the US.
Efron was handed a script by the studio recently for a yet-to-be announced role, reports Latino Review, a website with a decent track record in breaking casting news.
Marvel Studios’ most recent film, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, came out earlier this year – and its next, Guardians of the Galaxy, is set for release in August.
Meanwhile, last week Zac Efron claimed things got a little intimate on set while he was shooting Bad Neighbours with co-star Dave Franco.
The actor revealed the tidbit during an appearance on Jimmy Fallon’s The Tonight Show – telling Fallon he almost broke his hand grabbing James Franco’s younger brother’s “balls of steel.”
“I grabbed his balls, really hard, and he grabbed mine… and I don’t know what it is, man,” Efron said. “Those Franco brothers just have balls of steel. I did legitimately break my hand.”
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