Summit Pictures grabs action spec “Cancun” from writers Eric Champnella & Grant Thompson:

The project is acting as starring vehicle for Lautner and is the first project from the newly established production shingle he shares with his dad, Dan Lautner.

The story follows an out-of-place college kid who travels with a girl to Cancun on a break. While there, the girl and her friends are taken hostage by a drug cartel and he is forced to save them. The story is designed to take advantage of Lautner’s martial arts skills, which he showed off when he hosted “Saturday Night Live” this past weekend.

The writers are repped by ICM and Mosaic.