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'Tracers' will 'really dig into this society,' producer Wyck Godfrey tells MTV News.
By Kara Warner
Taylor Lautner
Photo: Jason Merritt/ Getty Images
UNIVERSAL CITY, California — When MTV News sat down with "Breaking Dawn - Part 2" producer Wyck Godfrey recently for some expert analysis of the film's chances in taking home Golden Popcorn at this Sunday's (June 3) MTV Movie Awards, we walked out with insightful Best Kiss category commentary as well as a few good tidbits about his future projects with the franchise's stars Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner.
Pattinson's potential project is in the very early stages, but Lautner's next movie with Godfrey has been greenlit, an action thriller called "Tracers," which Godfrey said will put Lautner's character into the underground world of parkour.
"We've got a great young Spanish director, Daniel Benmayor ... and it's really tackling the subculture of parkour," Godfrey said. "I think we all have seen parkour as action sequences in movies, but we haven't delved into the denizens of that world and what that's about. I kind of think of it as an action-heavy Gus Van Sant movie, because you really dig into this society."
When the film was announced, Lautner's character was employed as a bike messenger, but Godfrey revealed that detail will likely change.
"There's a movie coming out that Joe Gordon-Levitt's doing ['Premium Rush'], and I saw a trailer and thought, 'We should change our guy's job because [Gordon-Levitt] did it so well,' " Godfrey explained. "That's really just a jumping off point in the movie, so it's easy to change."
We then asked whether, before landing the role, Lautner demonstrated proof of his parkour moves — the art of which involves moving quickly through any environment via jumping, rolling and running.
"Honestly, one of the reasons we went to him is that in 'New Moon,' he does that thing where he goes up the tree, and that was something that I was there watching him train every day and realized how extraordinary he was athletically," Godfrey recalled. "He almost doesn't need the wires."
Don't forget to cast your vote for Lautner's nominated movie, "Breaking Dawn - Part 2," to win big at this year's MTV Movie Awards. It all goes down at the Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City, California, at 9 p.m. ET/PT this Sunday, June 3.
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