Has Hollywood canceled Taylor Lautner? Good question. According to IMDb, it's been two years since he's been in a TV show or movie. He did Cuckoo in the U.K. from 2014-2018, but the last thing he did in the U.S. was TV's Scream Queens in 2016.

It all started out so well. As a kid, Taylor was so good at martial arts that he landed the iconic Michael Chaturantabut  ("Mike Chat" is easier) as a coach. Taylor was world-class and was Junior World Champion three times.

Mike had done some gigs in Hollywood as a stuntman and an actor and so he pushed Taylor in that direction. Taylor's Lautner's parents decided to move to Los Angeles in 2011 after Taylor landed his first TV acting job.

Seven years later, when he was only 16, Taylor landed the role of Jacob Black in TwilightCritics panned the four Twilight (2008-2012), but fans couldn't get enough of it. The franchise catapulted Lautner, mega-rich Kristen Stewart, and Batman's Robert Pattinson into the big time. And Lautner? He didn't fare so well.

Now, eight years later it seems Lautner has been canceled by Hollywood. Nobody seems to want to cast the guy.

Let's take a look at what happened to Taylor Lautner and his career.

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He Was Asking For Way Too Much Money

At the height of the feeding frenzy over the Twilight franchise, Lautner would have been paid $7.5 million in 2010 for the movie Northern Lights. This was only a few months after a newly hunky Taylor hit movie theaters as Jacob Black in The Twilight Saga: New Moon. 

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That kind of money would have made him Hollywood's highest-paid teen actor. But he dropped out of the film.

It was crazy, Twilight had thrust the D-lister who had made the 2005 flop Sharkboy and Lavagirl 3-D, on to the A-list almost overnight.

As The Wrap said back then Lautner’s salary “far outstrips the sums commanded by fellow heartthrobs Zac Efron and Shia LaBeouf at similar points in their career.”

Come 2011 and Lautner wanted $10 million to do Goliath. Mercifully, the movie was canceled. He asked for $7.5 million for a superhero movie called Stretch Armstrong. That movie was never made either.

Finally, he landed a role in John Singleton's 2011 film Abduction. It was released in September of 2011. Let's just say it wasn't a blockbuster hit. Still, he got between $5 and $7.5 million for the movie.

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It seems that even before the final Twilight movie came out, it was clear Hollywood insiders had big doubts about Lautner's staying power. One producer reported said he appealed to "little girls and gay men".

He Made Some Lousy Choices

The number one mistake Taylor Lautner made was making 2011's Abduction. The critics hated it. And on a budget of  $35 million, it only made $82 million in box office receipts worldwide. And, in Hollywood accounting terms, that made it a flop. Universal Studios quickly buried the Stretch Armstrong movie.

Leading man offers? Forget it.

Since then, Lautner has been forced to accept smaller roles in movies like the thriller Run the Tide and in the U.K. TV show Cuckoo.

Perhaps optimistically, one Hollywood agent said" “It’s not easy to move out of the shadow of a hit like Twilight. But he’s still very young. There’s time for Taylor to become more than just Jacob.”

Like when?

His Dad Is Said To Be Difficult To Work With

According to The Data Lounge, Robin  Baum of Slate PR dropped Lautner because his father Daniel, a former Midwest Airlines pilot was hard to work with.  Baum hung in with the Lautners for all of three months before showing them the door. Baum has worked for A-listers such as Daniel Craig and Johnny Depp,
And there's more: Producer Joe Roth, who was to produce the abandoned movie Max Steel, told The Daily Beast he felt "jerked around by Lautner’s whims". “I think he’s getting bad advice,” said Roth. That's probably down to daddy's input. The Hollywood Reporter put it rather succinctly when they said: "Word is, his father, Daniel Lautner, isn't the easiest guy to work with."

His Heartthrob Image Took A Hit

Now, these days nobody bats an eye if an actor is gay, or bi, or pan, or whatever. But (and it's a big but), if your sexual identity hurts your fan base, that's a completely different matter. And Lautner's fan base was young girls who saw him as their knight in shining armor. GQ Australia reported that Lautner had been seen out and about with director Gus Van Sant and writer Dustin Lance Black, both of whom are in-your-face gay.

Asked by the magazine if they had "hit" on him, he protested too much.

He was emphatic in his denial: “No, definitely not. I think they know I’m straight. But they’re great guys. They’re a lot of fun."

But the story hit him where it hurt, right in his heartthrob credibility rating. Reports of his connecting up with other Hollywood gays and hitting some of the West Hollywood gay clubs didn't help. Sure, Taylor has a "girlfriend", but what does that count for these days of going every which way.

 So it appears that, at least for the time being, Hollywood has indeed canceled Taylor Lautner.

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