Not long back our former prime minister Scott Morrison let it be known that despite being thrown out of office last year, he wasn’t letting that event get him down; far from being in a foetal position in a corner he was leading a full and busy life.

Well, my Hollywood sources have confirmed that information by telling me of the many offers the ex-PM has received to take leading roles in soon-to-be-released blockbusters.

All of them are sequels to big box office hits and Morrison has been cast in all of them after undertaking screen tests at a Sydney casting agency – obviously with very positive results.

I can report exclusively that he will soon hit our screens in the long-overdue sequel to the 1997 Jim Carrey blockbuster comedy Liar Liar.

The film was about a high-flying US lawyer whose stock in trade was lying but who was forced to tell nothing but the truth for 24 hours.

Producers of the new Liar Liar 2 have cast Morrison in the lead role (pictured) as a sleazy, unprincipled, lying politician facing the same dilemma as Carrey’s character. 

I’m told that they struck trouble in early shooting and needed to adjust the script so that Morrison’s character is forced to tell the truth for just 24 seconds, not 24 hours.

“Even though it’s a movie with a fictitious plot, setting, and characters, he just couldn’t do the full 24 hours,” a source told me. “He wasn’t at all convincing when he tried telling the truth for that long.”

The other sequel staring Morrison is Backdraft II which, like the 1991 original, is set in a Chicago fire station.

In the follow-up Morrison plays a new recruit (pictured) who causes tension and chaos by not fulfilling even the most basic of his professional responsibilities.

But what is set to be Morrison’s Oscar-worthy role is an uncredited appearance in Basic Instinct II in which Sharon Stone reprises her famous “leg-crossing” scene that sparked such interest and outrage in the 1992 original. (main picture)

From what I’m told it will be Scott Morrison strolling the red carpet with at least one if not an armful of Oscars in a little under a year.