Meyers Signs on to Gregory Dark's "The Intern" with Alex Pettyfer and Selena Gomez

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Deadline is reporting that Michael has signed on to star in director Gregory Dark's new thriller "The Intern". Dark is known for his sexy and trashy thrillers such as Kids, Striptease, Showgirls, Wild Things, Popular 2 (Meyers, as we all know, starred in Popular 3), and recently made this year's Spring Breakers. Dark was up for the job of 50 Shades of Grey (which Meyers rumored to be up for but that turned out to be untrue) but apparently the test sex scene he shot featuring Alex Pettyfer of Magic Mike fame and his wife Rachel Korine was not enough to win him the job and Universal is still looking for other directors. So Dark has moved on with the Brad Furman script (Furman wrote the 2011 thriller Lincoln Lawyer) and has quite the cast lined up.

The film is about a brilliant and idealistic young business student from London (Pettyfer) who graduates with honors and earns a huge internship position at a prestigious and new company run by a suave yet shady CEO (played by Meyers). He seduces Pettyfer's character with all the money and women and power he could achieve if he follows in his foot steps. But, the more Pettyfer's character learns from Meyers the less he wants to be in this world. He eventually realizes there is very illegal stuff going on within the company and has the FBI after him, being forced to bring down the very man he thought he idolized. It sounds like Training Day set in the business world with Pettyfer having the Ethan Hawke role and Meyers with the Denzel part. Nice!!! The film is scheduled to start shooting in Costa Rica and London in October 2013 and is expected to be released in the late summer/early fall 2014.

 Selena Gomez will portray Meyers' girlfriend and assistant who develops feelings for Pettyfer. Gomez worked with Dark in this year's Spring Breakers.

Idris Elba is the persistent FBI agent who is desperate to bring down Meyers and his organization. Elba starred in Gregory Dark's 2009 thriller Poison Ivory. Meyers and Elba co-starred in 2012's Alien: Genesis together.