UPDATE: The woman Zac Efron has been searching for is Taylor Schilling (left), a regular on NBC's recently-cancelled "Mercy." She'll play the mysterious woman in a photo that gets Efron's soldier character through three tours of Iraq.

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July 27, 2010 -- Zac Efron will star in The Lucky One, based on the Nicholas Sparks novel, about a Marine who attributes surviving three tours in Iraq to a lucky photo he carries with him of a woman he's never met. When he's finally done with his military service overseas, he sets out to find her in North Carolina. Efron is currently in negotiations with Warner Brothers over compensation for the part.

Source: Variety

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