Back in November of last year, Taylor Lautner (The Twilight Saga) signed on to star in Max Steel, a film which centers on a 19-year-old extreme sports junkie recruited by a secret agency after an accident infects his body with nanobots, making him superhuman.

Then, this February – Universal signed Taylor Lautner to star in their 3D adaptation of Stretch Armstrong where Lautner will play “an uptight spy who stumbles across a stretching formula, which he takes and must adjust to in everyday life and when fighting crime.” The action-comedy script for the film was written by Steve Oedekerk (Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls).

Now, it has been reported that Lautner has bailed on Max Steel, in favor of Stretch Armstrong. The report hints that it wasn’t only Lautner’s busy schedule, but a difference between Hasbro and Mattel on the efficiency front. While Hasbro (Stretch Armstrong) has been pushing their movies forward (Transformers, G.I. Joe, and Battleship), Mattel has not.

[Source] NYMag