Teens everywhere gave a little squee this morning as it is being reported that ‘High School Musical’ star, Zac Efron is set to take over as the new ‘Spiderman’ when the franchise relaunches in 2012.
Despite reports that ‘Twilight’ hottie Robert Pattinson was being considered as the new Spidey (read about that by clicking here), reports are that Universal Studios has offered Efron over $9 million to pick up where Tobey Maguire left off.
Via OK:
“After dumping Spidey, Tobey then came to the rescue by recommending that Zac should take over his role.”
Producers believe the 22-year-old, who has a huge teen following, will bring new fans to the Spider-Man series by playing the reluctant hero and his alter ego Peter Parker.
Rumors are also flying that Universal is in talks to get Efron’s real-life girlfriend, Vanessa Hudgens, to take over the role of Mary Jane from Kirsten Dunst.
If this happens, it’s only a matter of time before Spidey breaks into a mash-up of songs from ‘South Pacific’ and complains of runs in his spidey stockings.
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this is so great. i think it wud be so nice if vanessa also took the role of mary jane to complete everything . this is gonna be so great