Now might be the time to stop acting all weird Shia Labeouf - Zac Efron is getting your roles. The High School Musical hunk has replaced the Transformers star in a big-screen adaptation of crime author John Grisham's The Associate. Shia was attached to the part, playing a law student who is the target of a blackmail scam, back when the project first got the green-light in 2009, but the job has now been taken over by Zac. Zac will also produce the movie through his Ninja's Runnin Wild company. Very swanky! It's the latest role which Shia has walked away from - he recently exited Barry Levinson's new movie Rock The Kasbah, starring Bill Murray as a washed-up music manager who lands a career boost when he takes on a pop wannabe from Afghanistan. Maybe Zac will get that too? Both stars had a troublesome 2013, years after they started out as teen stars in Tinseltown. Shia has baffled fans with his bizarre behaviour, from his ridiculous tweets to wearing a paper bag on his head at the premiere of his film Nymphomaniac at the Berlin Film Festival. Meanwhile, Zac reportedly went to rehab to deal with substance abuse issues and later broke his jaw after slipping on a puddle water at his Hollywood home. Thankfully, it looks like things are starting to look up for Zac now. Yahoo
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