Freestyle Releasing is Featuring Zac Efron in new more dramatic role for their “Me and Orson Welles” movie. They’ve released a new movie trailer for it (below). It also stars : Claire Danes, Christian McKay, Ben Chaplin, Kelly Reilly, Eddie Marsan, Leo Bill, Imogen Poots, and Aidan McArdle.

“Me and Orson Welles” is based on a novel by Robert Kaplow, which is a story set in the world of the New York Theatre.Zac Efron plays a teenage student named Richard Samuels who gets lucky enough to play a minor role in the 1937 Mercury Theatre production of “Julius Caesar,” which is directed by a 22 year old genius named Orson Welles.

Richard has decided that he’ll work for free,and also has few uncomfortable run-ins with Orson Wells on the set. Robert Kaplow describes the story the best with the following : “This is the story of one week in my life. I was seventeen. It was the week I slept in Orson Welles’s pajamas. It was the week I fell in love. It was the week I fell out of love.”

“Me and Orson Welles” hits theaters on November 25,2009.

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