Zac Efron Sails Into The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud

@Karen:

V belongs here too - her HSM days are over and she working with amazing directors.

@roni:
Yes, in fact if you read the comments you will see that most people do give a “rip” about him and find him gorgeous, intriguing, and incredibly gifted.

I so can’t wait to see Zac in The Death and Life of Charlie St Clound.

Good luck to him on this movie.

Love ya ZAC.

VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE!!!!

What’s up with his face, did someone punched him?

peggy & gracemarie:

I never said Vanessa shouldn’t be on the main board. As a matter of fact over the past several days I have had more than one post on JJJ about this “problem” of both Zac and Vanessa not getting their just due here on the main board after which we suddenly got several new threads on both on JJJ and and now Zac on the main board. I’m not saying that was the cause but after after next to no real new threads on Vanessa or even Zac even on JJJ we got some new ones. The one thread of Vanessa even mentioned about voting for her at the TCA’s which had not even been mentioned before!

Excuse me if I misunderstood both of your comments but I never once meant or said Vanessa shouldn’t be on here. I protested loud and long when Jared first created the JR site and regulated both of them to that site and even got an email from JJ concerning my displeasure and made a slight reference to it in my aforementioned posts on JJJ. As I made mention in the one comment it used to be I could go to the yahoo search for Just Jared and when the page came up with different choices both Zac and Vanessa would be listed within the first 4 and now—get ready for this—the first person named is Suri Cruise! Zac and Vanessa are not even mentioned. This after getting the email from Jared way back when telling me to calm down that they would be on this site when there was something “truly” newsworthy. Of course I didn’t really read anything noteworthy about Dakota Fanning’s last thread on thos site or even Robert Pattinson.

Its good to see Zac preparing for his next movie project and learning some new things too. I think once he has learned this, he will go sailing along with surfing when he goes on vacation.

I haven’t read the news of who will play the role of Tess; I guess they are still deciding on the actress, and putting all the cast together.

I have read the book too and here is a very accurate synopsis.

Two brothers, Charlie (15) and Sam (12) decide to go to watch a baseball match. They ‘borrow’ their neighbor’s car and drive to the stadium. On the way back, however, they have a car accident and they die. When they are dead, they find themselves close to the cemetery in Marblehead, the town where they live. They are scared and make a promise that they will never abandon each other. However, Charlie gets resuscitated and carries on living.

The story jumps thirteen years forward. Charlie has grown up and works at the cemetery in Marblehead. Every evening he goes to a nearby forest where he plays catch with Sam. Charlie has a gift of seeing ghosts and thus he can play with Sam. This also serves well his job as a caretaker, because he can talk with the deceased.

In the town there lives Tess Carroll, a yachtswoman who desires to make a round-the-world trip. A week before her departure she directs her yacht into storm to test it but due to an accident the yacht sinks and Tess is lost. At the same time Tess appears at the cemetery. She meets Charlie and they go on a date. The day after Tess realizes that people ignore her and the proof that something is wrong comes when she cannot see her reflection in water. What is more, she can play with Sam St Cloud, the boy who died 13 years ago.

Charlie is shocked at the thought that Tess could be dead. In the meantime everyone in the town in possession of a boat explores the bay to find Tess’s body, including Charlie. He has to admit that he hasn’t seen real Tess, only Tess’s spirit.

Everyone gives up the search, but then Charlie feels that there is one place he has to go. With help of Sam he finds Tess’s body. Tess is transported to a hospital where they stabilize her . However, she is in a deep coma.

A few months afterwards Charlie decides to quit his job and move on. During his last visit in hospital Tess wakes up and after talking to her a while she begins to recollect her memories as a ghost.

The whole story is in a frame-construct, narrated by a dead fire-fighter Florio, the one who resuscitates Charlie at the beginning of the story.

zac is a true professional.

@Malia: The book is a great read….I borrowed it from my sister and finished it in a matter of days…
It does read well, and I’m really interested to see how Burr Speers will direct this and pull it off…The book is so vivid with the imagery, I can’t wait to see Zac in the role of Charlie…WOW…the description of him is a bit different, but can you imagine, a tanned, slightly scruffy, long dark haired man with gorgeous blue eyes starring at you…YUMMY!!! I think Zac can carry this role without a doubt!!! Can’t Wait!

@Sofia:

That’s where I got the synopsis from. I didn’t mean I wrote the synopsis myself. I said “here is a very accurate synopsis.” Guess I should have mentioned it was from Wikipedia.

But from having read the book, that synopsis is right on.