by Jason Adams
The Greatest Showman is out in theaters now and word seems to be... mixed, let's used the word "mixed." If any of you have seen it feel free to chime in with thoughts in the comments! I haven't seen it, nor do I plan on seeing it, but it was never gonna be my cuppa anyway. Much more my cuppa, at least in theory, is Zac Efron's next pair of projects - he's entering his Risk Taker phase, y'all...
Announced last spring but yet to film is Extremely Wicked, Shocking and Vile, director Joe Berlinger's movie about the serial killer Ted Bundy and his longtime girlfriend (played by Lily Collins) who was unaware of her paramour's extracurriculars.
And just announced last week is The Beach Bum, which will reunite Zac with his Paperboy co-star Matthew McConaughey's, this time for no less a director than Harmony Korine. This is Korine's first film since James Franco deep-throated a pistol in Spring Breakers and this sounds like a similar twist on McConaughey's persona - he's playing a stoner named "Moondog" who goes on a journey; Efron will play someone named "Flicker" that meets Moondog along the way. (I can't believe I just wrote that sentence.)
So what do we think about Zac's upcoming projects? Is he smart to take risks like this? Or should he just lean into his many surface pleasures?