Taylor Lautner is Max Steel!

Max Steel was a cartoon and toyline (and Sega Dreamcast game) that started in the late ’90s and it looks like Mattel wants to bring the action to theaters with a name currently familiar with moviegoers in Taylor Lautner of Twilight and New Moon fame. I have to admit that I had never head of Max Steel in any form before now but we do have some information.

Lautner was a Junior World Champion in karate so we figure he can lead an action film. In the cartoon and Toy line, Max Steel is Josh McGrath, a teenage extreme sports fanatic who becomes a secret agent/superhero after an accident gives him abilities like changing his appearance, invisibility, and super-strength. Now, there were also Direct to TV movies that only feature the alter ego, Max Steel.

A report by Variety also indicates that the Max Steele toy line is Latin America’s best-selling action figure. Yopu can also check out Mattel’s Max Steel site.