'High School Musical' star Zac Efron is set to star in Richard Linklater's next film 'Me and Orson Welles'.
Based on a novel by Robert Kaplow, the film is set in 1937. The director of 'A Scanner Darkly' has cast the pre-teen idol as a student living in New York, who strolls into the legendary Mercury Theatre founded by Orson Welles.
Once there he gets cast in Welles' production of 'Julius Caesar' and spends a week learning from the legend.
The Hollywood Reporter also reveals that Christian McKay has been cast as Welles, with Ben Chaplain set to play the actor George Coulouris.
