We just heard last week that Selena Gomez is set to play Hannah in the upcoming film adaption of Thirteen Reasons Why, based on the novel by Jay Asher.

Chitter chatter around the web (via MTV) is that Logan Lerman’s name is floating around the character of Clay Jensen.

Thirteen Reasons Why centers on Clay, a high school student who comes home to find a box sitting on his doorstep. In it he discovers seven cassette tapes sent to him by his late crush, Hannah Baker, who recently committed suicide.

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More than a dozen of Hollywood’s young stars – including Zac Efron, Dakota Fanning, Andrew Garfield, Vanessa Hudgens, Logan Lerman, Kristen Bell, Jon Heder, Aubrey Plaza, Zachary Levi, Sofia Vassilieva, Clark Duke, Olivia Munn, Naya Rivera, Donald Faison, Aaron Yoo and William Moseley – are part of a new a new public service campaign called “Change The Odds,” in support of Stand Up To Cancer, a program of the Entertainment Industry Foundation devoted to raising funds for cancer research.

Stand Up To Cancer will return to prime-time TV on Sept. 10, 2010, at 8 p.m. ET/PT. The one-hour fundraising event will be simulcast live and commercial-free on ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, HBO, Discovery Health, E!, MLB Network, The Style Network, VH1, HBO Latino, Showtime, TV One and G4.

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The upcoming adaptation of The Perks of Being a Wallflower is set to be a low-budget indie production, but writer/director/author of the novel Stephen Chbosky may look to grander blockbuster fantasy fare for his leads with the likes of Logan Lerman and Emma Watson in contention. Since Sony is not yet willing to make him the new Spider-Man, Variety reports that Lerman may follow up Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief with this coming-of-age drama. Likewise, if Watson signs on, Wallflower would represent her first feature film role outside of the Harry Potter franchise.

Published by MTV (wait, what?) in 1999, The Perks of Being a Wallflower tells the story of a teen who assumes the alias “Charlie”, and describes the various events of his high school life in letters to an anonymous person. You can find a full synopsis after the jump:

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Logan Lerman may be taking on the Three Musketeers for his net project! Paul W.S. Anderson’s version of the film has reportedly tapped tapped Christoph Waltz, Logan Lerman, Ray Stevenson, Milla Jovovich, Luke Evans and Madds Mikkelsen for key roles.

As with all movies lately, there will be a 3-D version of the film, which is slated to start shooting in September.

The Three Musketeers” centers on the impetuous D’Artagnan as he joins forces with three veteran musketeers — Athos, Porthos and Aramis — to battle the evil Cardinal Richelieu. Logan would have the starring role

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The search for the new “Spider-Man” appears to be over.

HitFix has exclusively learned that Logan Lerman is first choice for Sony Pictures and the clear frontrunner to replace Tobey Maguire as Peter Parker in the reboot of the blockbuster franchise. A source close to the production tells HitFix Lerman is “almost 100% locked” but not in contract negotiations for the role yet.

Marc Webb (“500 Days of Summer”) is directing the new untitled “Spider-Man” which is being written by James Vanderbilt (“Zodiac,” “The Losers”) and is meant to be a more teen-friendly incarnation, taking Peter Parker back to his early days of balancing girl trouble, homework, and crimefighting. The new film is expected to begin production later this year for a July 3, 2012 release.

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Maguire, co-star Kristen Dunst and director Sam Raimi were expected to continue their version of the wall-crawler’s adventures until Raimi bowed out after creative differences with the studio earlier this
year. At that time, Sony Pictures decided to re-cast the film and move in a new direction, and had already been developing a reboot script as a contingency plan.

Lerman beats out rumored contenders Anton Yelchin, Jesse Eisenberg, Patrick Fugit and Johnny Simmons.

The 18-year-old Los Angeles native is best known for his role as Percy in February’s hit “Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief.” His other credits include “Gamer,” “My One and Only,” “Bill,” “3:10 to Yuma,” “The Number 23″ and the TV series “Jack & Bobby” where he played Bobby. Lerman got his start in two Mel Gibson films “What Women Want” and “The Patriot” at the young age of 8.

The attention focused on the casting of this role is not surprising when one considers that, historically, one of the reasons “Gone With the Wind was a phenomenon when it was released in 1939 was the deep investment that the audience already had in the characters thanks to the popularity of the book. Mega-producer David O. Selznick made canny use of the the casting process to hype the film, and the search to find the right Scarlett O’Hara and the right Rhett Butler was international news for a full year.

These days, it seems that the search for each new superhero has become a major sport for outlets that cover entertainment news, no doubt because modern audiences have a major investment in seeing these characters done right. When Sony Pictures decided to reboot “Spider-Man,” speculation began immediately, and Lerman was one of the early names bandied about. At the time, those conversations were premature, but it appears that the process has brought Sony back around to the young actor, and now he is poised to wear the familiar red-and-blue costume after all.

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