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Add the andPOP Facebook Application(andPOP) - Fresh off the success of "Hairspray," Zac Efron is going back in time again -- this time to 1937, for a role in Richard Linkletter's "Me and Orson Welles."
In the fictional story, Efron will play a teen who gets the chance of a lifetime when he is given a big part in the legendary "Citizen Kane" director's production of "Julius Caesar" at New York's Mercury Theatre.
Lessons from Welles about life, love and art ensue.
The movie is an adaptation of the coming-of-age novel by Robert Kaplow, who was inspired by the real-life story of Welles apprentice Arthur Anderson.
It will begin shooting in February in New York, London and the Isle of Man.
Efron, 20, is currently filming "Seventeen," which also stars Matthew Perry as a man in his 30s who wakes up to find he is a teenager again. After "Orson Welles," Efron will begin work on the third installment of the wildly popular "High School Musical" series.
