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For a time, there was the possibility that Disney Channel super twink Zac Efron would turn his teen idol fame into a legitimate movie career.  Let’s face it, no one wants that.  Luckily, it seems more and more that he’s gone the almost-Lifetime movie route, starring in the upcoming Charlie St. Cloud, which isn’t a Nicholas Sparks novel, but if it doesn’t make at least as good a plot-recreated-with-reviews post as Miley Cyrus’ sea turtle party, I’ll be sorely disappointed.  I’ve been waiting months for this.  “Listen to ya dead brothah, Chahlie!  Help that sailor girl find her way home!”

Now from Vulture comes word that Efron will jumping from a movie that looks like a Nicholas Sparks movie to an actual Nicholas Sparks movie.  God bless that kid for the material he gives me.

Vulture hears that he is in negotiations to play a former Marine in Warner Bros.’ forthcoming adaptation of Nicholas Sparks’s novel The Lucky One. This would be the seventh Sparks novel to make it to the big screen (just eight more to go!); Efron would play the titular “One,” who returns from three tours in Iraq to (where else?) North Carolina. There he searches for a mysterious woman in a random snapshot he found — a snapshot he believes was his good-luck charm throughout the second Gulf War. The Lucky One is being produced by Sparks’s own lucky charm, Denise DiNovi, who’d previously brought the author’s Message in a Bottle, A Walk to Remember, and Nights in Rodanthe to the big screen.

Hey, does anyone know what the rest of that block quote said?  I couldn’t hear anything after “former Marine” because I was laughing too hard.  I can’t wait for his supporting turn in “Hannah Montana: CIA Physicist.”