Emma Watson and Taylor Lautner in new movie - or not

According to Deadline,  Emma is one of three actresses being considered for a role in Taylor Lautner's new film, Incarceron.

EXCLUSIVE: I've learned that the Taylor Lautner juggernaut continues in Hollywood as this 18-year-old Twilight Saga action star and teen heartthrob just keeps booking movie after movie. Last year's highest paid teenage actor (for a reported $7.5 million pay day in Universal's Stretch Armstrong with Hasbro and Imagine) is starting off the new year by producing and starring in 2 new studio tentpoles during 2011. I can scoop that Fox 2000 and New Regency each coughed up an 8-digit paycheck to work with 8-pack-abs Tay-Tay for his two only available time slots this year. Meanwhile, three top producers including Michael Bay and his Platinum Dunes are circling Taylor to star in their movies for 2012 and beyond. That's because of Lautner’s enormous Twi-hard fan base and aggressive promotion of his films, and not because of any solo box office he's done yet.


Fox 2000 and the filmmakers now are looking to cast his love interest in Incarceron, and I'm told the frontrunners are Blake Lively, Jennifer Lawrence, and Emma Watson. John Palermo Productions will produce (Wolverine, Drive) with Lautner’s own Quick Six production banner., Lautner will play the lead role from Catherine Fisher’s sci-fi/fantasy novel which last March went to Fox in a rights bidding war after the book was published in the U.S. this November and jumped onto The New York Times bestseller list. Lautner plays a character who lives his entire life in a savage and futuristic prison society. The screenwriting duo of Adam Cooper and Bill Collage are writing. (They are also scripting Moby Dick for Timur Bekmanbetov and Moses for FOX and producer Peter Chernin. So why not for Lautner, too?)

After this report was released this was posted on Snitchseeker's twitter:
 @EmWatson's reps have asked us to assure fans that she is "constantly reading scripts;" there are "no projects in the pipeline at present."


 Is this referring to her rumored role in The Perks of Being a Wallflower, this new movie rumor, or both. Technically the Deadline article didn't say Emma had landed the role up so it wouldn't be in the pipeline presently. Plus Emma was in LA last week for unknown reasons (like Lautner, Emma is represented by WME in Los Angeles.) The added twist is that Deadline broke the story that Lautner signed up for Incarceron last month which turned out to be true. Things that make you go hmmm.