Efron lands part in JFK flick

Zac Efron will star in JFK assassination movie 'Parkland'.

'The Paperboy' hunk has been cast alongside 'Mystic River' actress Marcia Gay Harden, Paul Giamatti, Billy Bob Thornton and Jacki Weaver in writer-director Peter Landesman's drama about the events in the titular Dallas hospital on November 22, 1963, the day US President John F Kennedy was killed.