
Beneath the light of the full moon, Taylor Lautner is metamorphosing from one of cinema’s most famous werewolves to their greatest enemy. Lautner, who played the lycanthropic Jacob in the Twilight films, is set to star in his own supernatural comedy series, Taylor Lautner: Werewolf Hunter. Variety reports that the series is in development at Amazon MGM Studios.
Lautner will play himself in the comedy series, which will explain why his post-Twilight career has been less successful than his cohorts Robert Pattinson or Kristen Stewart. It’s not because of a break from the spotlight or the meager box-office grosses of Abduction: it’s because he’s been waging a war on werewolves. The actor finds himself drawn into a secret society of werewolf hunters who need his unique Thespian skills to track down their quarry. Thus, he begins leading a double life: actor by day, beast-slayer by night. Along the way to saving the world, he’ll also try to revive his career and also fall in love. Will he overcome the irony of his cinematic calling card becoming his greatest foe? Will he lose his shirt on multiple occasions? Will he convince Pattinson to cameo? You’ll have to find out for yourselves when Taylor Lautner: Werewolf Hunter debuts, but no release date or streaming platform has been announced.
What Has Taylor Lautner Been Doing Since Twilight?
Lautner may not have been nominated for an Oscar or played Batman like some Twilight stars we could name, but his career hasn’t been completely (un)dead since the series shuffled off this mortal coil with 2012’s Breaking Dawn Part 2. Lautner has made two movies with Adam Sandler, appearing in Grown Ups 2 and The Ridiculous 6, and headlined the parkour action movie Tracers in 2015. He was a regular in the second and final season of the Ryan Murphy horror comedy series Scream Queens, and starred in three seasons of the British sitcom Cuckoo, replacing Andy Samberg as the series’ lead. He recently starred alongside Kevin James in the sports comedy Home Team, and is next slated to star with Sarah Hyland and Andie MacDowell in the romantic comedy The Token Groomsman.
Taylor Lautner: Werewolf Hunter will be created and showrun by Daisy Gardner, who has written for Married, The Goldbergs, and Single Drunk Female. Horror comedy hitmakers Matthew Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett direct and executive produce the show via Radio Silence. Adam Londy of Tornante will also executive produce along with Tarik Kanafani and Lautner. Amazon MGM Studios will produce the series with Tornante.
Taylor Lautner: Werewolf Hunter is in development; no release date has yet been announced.
via Collider
