Up-and-coming actress Isabela Moner is being eyed for a lead role opposite stamp Wahlberg in Paramounts “Transformers 5,” an individual familiar with the project has told TheWrap.
Paramount did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Michael Bay is returning to direct the action-packed sequel, which boasts the involvement of executive producer Steven Spielberg as well as a litany of writers including Oscar winner Akiva Goldsman.
Moner is poised to play the young female lead of Izabella, or a street-smart tomboy who grew up an orphan and was raised in foster care. She counts a small Transformer as her only friend… until she meets Wahlberg’s heroic inventor Cade Yeager.
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There may be a tip of corporate synergy behind Moner’s expected casting, as the rising young actress is a Nickelodeon star whose credits include “100 Things to Do Before tall School” and the animated series “Dora and Friends: Into the City!” She recently wrapped CBS Films’ comedy “Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life, or ” based on the series of books by James Patterson. The Cleveland native is also slated to star in a movie based on the TV show Legends of the Hidden Temple” that was well-liked in the mid-’90s.
Moner is represented by CESD,Untitled Entertainment and Peikoff Mahan Law Office.
Source: thewrap.com