Taylor Lautner Faces Heart-Stopping Challenges In “TRACERS” – OPENS FEB. 4
“Twilight Series" heartthrob hero Taylor Lautner stars in the
upcoming action thriller “Tracers” in the midst of parkour’s dangerous
backdrop.
Lautner plays
Cam, broke and depleted of luck trying to scrape off his debts, one day crashes
into Nikki (Marie Avgeropoulos), a complicated stranger caught up in a gang of
broken street criminals who seduces him into her dangerous world. The parkour
takes him to places he has never been before and lands him a lucrative job
under the gang’s leader, Miller (Rayner).
Ultimately extricating himself from a world unimagined and unanticipated
becomes a whole different heart-stopping challenge.
Tracers is
on its surface very simple. It’s about a
guy – ‘Cam’ – who finds a girl – ‘Nikki’. The girl allows him to reclaim a part
of his life and a spirit in his life. At
the exact same moment that happens, outside forces are pressing in on him. And that’s where Tracers takes off.
And for Tracers
it was critical that the cast be as believable as possible. “So for this film,” says producer Marty Bowen,
“the real challenge was finding actors that we could believe could do this
work. The honest truth was, there was no
other actor that could pull off the leading role of Cam better than Taylor
Lautner. And frankly, there are things
that even his stuntman – his stunt double who taught him to do parkour, cannot
do as well as Taylor can. He’s just a
truly gifted athlete.” So Tracers is that perfect marriage of a
great action drama that utilizes these highly tuned physical skills as a means
through which things get done quickly, efficiently, and definitely differently
than we’ve ever seen before in a film.
But the other extremely critical thing to note here is that Lautner is
not only physically up to the challenges of the film, but concurrently he’s
grown as an actor, and this role demanded real acting chops.”
“Tracers is a real Dickensian story in
the vein of Oliver Twist about a
young man who essentially has been orphaned; his father and mother are gone,
and he’s been forced, at a very early age, to fend for himself. So Cam dreams of getting his father’s old
sport car up and running and moving far, far away,” says Bowen.
“Our story begins with Cam, a young bicycle messenger
who, through a series of unfortunate circumstances, owes the wrong people
money. He is trying desperately to
figure out how to get them the money quickly so that he can get his father’s
car that he’s working on fixed and just leave town and start a new life. But along the way he meets a girl and becomes
besotted with Nikki and that changes his plans completely when she introduces
him to a world that he didn’t know existed – the world of free-running, and in
which he finds she and her street criminal friends and they become his new
surrogate family of orphans. But along
with that, there’s the underside of things going on behind the scene that are
very complicated; and what these new family members are doing, under Miller’s
stranglehold on them, is clearly illegal.
And before he realizes it, he’s in far deeper than he expected. He realizes that in order to get out of this
world, he’s got to do some drastic things,” says Bowen.
For Taylor Lautner, Tracers provided an opportunity for him to show the world that he’s
an actor to be taken very seriously.
He’s emerged into a talented force on screen that not only can pull of
the amazing demands of a fast-paced action thriller, and is equally facile at
the more character-driven connective threads that keep Tracers as a whole a fast-paced, heart-stopping drama too.
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