SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING Star in Talks to Join Hugh Jackman's THE GREATEST SHOWMAN ON EARTH

I'm wholly unfamiliar with the work of Zendaya, the nineteen-year-old Disney Channel star who seems to be transitioning into feature films in a big way. She scored the female lead role opposite Tom Holland in Sony and Marvel's Spider-Man: Homecoming, and now THR reports that she's in talks to join Hugh Jackman in The Greatest Showman on Earth, a film about the life of P.T. Barnum, the brains behind the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus.

Jackman, who's been championing this project and developing it since at least 2009, will play Barnum, and Zac Efron and Michelle Williams are currently in negotiations to come aboard. Williams would play Barnum's love interest, Efron would play "a playwright who becomes Barnum's right hand man," and if the deal goes through, Zendaya will play "a trapeze artist Efron's character falls for." 

Michael Gracey is directing, and Michael Arndt (Toy Story 3) wrote the screenplay. The film is an original Hollywood musical not based on any other property or idea, which is ultra-rare these days, and Justin Paul and Benj Pasek (Smash) are coming on board to write songs for the feature. Zendaya put out a self-titled album in 2013, so it seems she'll be able to hold her own with Jackman and company in the singing department.