Taylor Lautner, perhaps best known for his role as Jacob Black in theTwilightmovies, is set to return to his glory days of werewolves (sadly, no vampires have been confirmed) in the newly announced upcoming Amazon seriesTaylor Lautner: Vampire Hunter.
Let’s face it, while Lautner has gone on to feature in a few movies and TV series since his breakout role as Black (Grown Ups 2, The Ridiculous 6, Home Team), he is definitely remembered most as part of the will-they-won’t-they love triangle between a werewolf, a vampire, and an infuriatingly moody teenage girl.
In what seems like an attempt to bring back his now grown-up fans,Varietyhas revealed that Lautner will be starring in a new series… As himself.
Brought to Amazon by Tornante (the studio behindBojack Horseman, which gives mesomehope), Taylor Lautner: Werewolf Hunter will bizarrely follow on from Lautner’s appearance in theTwilightfilms (in a fourth-wall-breaking kind of way), with Lautner wrapping up filming onBreaking Dawn Part 2before teaming up with a “real-life” team or werewolf hunters to, I’m assuming, save the world from the lycanthrope threat.
There are several levels of irony here, not least of which is the fact that the series will center on Lautner fighting the very creatures that made him famous. There’s also set to be a love story (hopefully with someone more palatable than Bella), and still maintaining his Hollywood career during the day.
Honestly, the final aspect might be a bit of a stretch. Lautner has had arguably the least significant Hollywood presence of the mainTwilightcast since the last movie wrapped, but that’s why theBojackconnection makes me hopeful.Bojack Horsemanis a masterpiece of a tragicomedy, very much centered on the storyline of a struggling former star who has lost his way, so fingers crossed Amazon can pull this off.
