Last week I reported that Alex Pettyfer would be up for the lead male role in the upcoming film adaption of the 'Mortal Instruments' series, but it's looking like he may now instead be up for the lead role in the adaption of the series 'The Last Apprentice which centers around a young man in the 1700's training to become an exorcist.
Apparently Jennifer Lawrence and Jeff Bridges are also up for roles in the film.
Bridges would be playing Pettyfer's mentor in the film, and Lawrence would play the role of a suspected witch.
It should be noted that this is all speculation for now, as Pettyfer is not officially connected to either film.
Here's a description of the first book in the series.
Twelve-year-old Thomas Ward, as the seventh son of a seventh son, has no inheritance and is bored with farm work, and even though his new job will mean the superstitious villagers will forever shun him, he is eager to go off to adventure with the tall, hooded man he calls the Spook. His mother, a magical person herself, approves, and the Spook’s teaching is strict but kind. But when Tom has only learned enough to be able to control their house-boggart, he is tricked by Alice, the young daughter of a witch family, into inadvertently releasing and then killing Mother Malkin, a witch the Spook has imprisoned in a pit. This is no polite wicca-type witch, but a snuffling, slime-trailing, cannibalistic creature reminiscent of Tolkien’s nasgils. The story of Tom’s escape from the reincarnated witch’s hideous revenge is full of horrible details.
So obviously if Pettyfer is cast the will be making the role of Thomas quite a bit older seeing as how there's no way he can pull off looking like a 12 year old.
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