The producers of The Host (a film based on Stephenie Meyer’s book of the same name) have decided upon the actor who will play Jared!

Not only that, but Entertainment Weekly’s report seems to also indicate who will play Ian (we learned the other day this actor’s deal was close to completion).

Max Irons will play Jared and Jake Abel will play Ian!

From the report:

The important role of Jared Howe will be played by 26-year-old actor Max Irons, EW has learned.
Irons, son of Oscar-winning and golden-throated actor Jeremy Irons, was last seen in this year’s Red Riding Hood. For this project, he joins director Andrew Niccol (In Time, Gattaca) and the long-attached Saoirse Ronan, who will play Melanie Stryder, a young woman who shares her body with an alien force known as Wanderer. Since no Meyer novel is complete without some complicated relationship geometry, Jake Abel has been cast in the role of Ian, a man who falls in love with Wanderer despite the fact that she is in the body of Melanie who is in love with Jared.

Are you happy with these casting decisions?