The New A-List: What Went Wrong With Taylor Lautner's Career — hollywoodreporter.com

This story first appeared in the April 10 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. It only was about five years ago that Lautner's bulked-up body made its big debut in The Twilight Saga: New Moon. That film grossed $710 million worldwide and fueled buzz that Lautner, then just 17, could be the next big action star. Weeks after New Moon's release, Paramount set him as the lead in its big-budget Max Steel, based on the Mattel action figure. He also signed on to the fighter-pilot action movie Northern Lights for a reported $7.5 million. Soon after, Lautner dropped out of Northern Lights when he was offered the lead in Universal's Stretch Armstrong project. Around the same time, he landed Abduction, Lionsgate's action film directed by John Singleton; he was attached to Fox 2000's sci-fi adaptation Incarceron; and he was offered the lead in Relativity's David and Goliath project.

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