IGN recently interviewed Fire author Brian Bendis and here’s what he had to say about his working with Zac. View the source for more (mention of Zac appears on page three).

FROM IGN.COM: “So one of the more shocking news items related to you – that somehow wasn’t related to Ares being disemboweled – was you driving around with Zac Efron. I know my whole office was talking about it – ‘Like, what the hell?’ It’s interesting, when I go into a store I see Jinx, I see Powers…I don’t see Fire…”

Bendis: “Fire actually sells really well, perhaps because it’s cheaper. That’s why I remastered it, because I was selling a lot of these and it was an earlier work. I don’t think at this stage in my career, as people are buying what I’d consider to be fairly polished works…I did this in college, and I want it to resemble something more professional. So I had it remastered at Image, and I’m happy I did that. I hate to tell you how old the book is, that’s how old it is…Zac Efron was something like four years old or something. -laughs- But it’s constantly been in print this whole time. And every time I get back the accruals for the quarter I’m like ‘Really! Okay!’ -laughs- It’s just odd and funny.

So that said, what happened was he had read it and his agent got a hold of my manager. They were talking and this pretty well known producer, Neal Moritz, who is working on Green Hornet and all kinds of stuff, all got together and thought me and Zac might get along. So they put us in a room together and he’s a very interesting guy. I’m sitting there going, ‘I don’t know what I’m going to get.’ But he’s very smart and aiming high, trying to make that next step in a legitimate way, trying to follow in the steps of Matt Damon or Johnny Depp.”

Source: IGN.com