All You Efron Fans...

I admit this post is not really Bam Kapow’s normal niche, but after all the discussion on the boards I couldn’t pass it up. This is the latest post from Film Drunk:

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Awwww yeeeeah, this banner picture is for you, ladies.  I know how much you love pictures of hot, shirtless dudes playing sports.  Anyway, the story is that Zac Efron will soon be playing a street tough, a role he was born to play.

The “High School Musical” graduate is attached to star in and produce a remake of “Snabba Cash,” a hot Swedish thriller [trailer after the jump] that was the subject of a heavy Hollywood bidding war before ending up at Warner Bros.

“Snabba,” based on a novel by Jens Lapidus, was a major hit in its home country this year. The film follows three interconnected storylines involving drugs and organized crime, with the main character a young man (played in the original by Joel Kinnaman) who hopes to strike it rich quickly by becoming a runner for a coke dealer. Efron would play the runner in the WB version.

The “High School Musical” graduate is attached to star in and produce a remake of “Snabba Cash,” a hot Swedish thriller [trailer after the jump] that was the subject of a heavy Hollywood bidding war before ending up at Warner Bros.

“Snabba,” based on a novel by Jens Lapidus, was a major hit in its home country this year. The film follows three interconnected storylines involving drugs and organized crime, with the main character a young man (played in the original by Joel Kinnaman) who hopes to strike it rich quickly by becoming a runner for a coke dealer. Efron would play the runner in the WB version.

I’m sure you’re all expecting me to make some crude, gay joke here.  Something like, “Zac Efron would probably make a great drug smuggler, he’s already used to picking condoms out of his sh*t.”  But I’m taking the high road.  That kind of toilet humor is beneath me.  Instead I’ll just say that Zac Efron would make a fine drug smuggler.  He could hide them in his purse.

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So what did we just learn? Well, aside from the fact that my boy at Film Drunk feels the same way I do about Efron? We learned that he is trying to branch out and play a character with some balls, as I said he should before. When the whole ‘F-Ron for Spidey’ thing started I said I felt he would have to make up for the Disney shit first, just like Bale did in the past. He now appears to be doing just that.

This dosen’t mean he’s won me over and I think he should be Spiderman, but at least he recognizes that he’ll have to step his game up if he ever wants to be taken seriously…