You read that right.
David Cronenberg has just cast Robert “Edward†Pattinson in his new film Cosmopolis. The Twilight star will play Eric Packer, a financial genius at the heart of an assassination plot thanks to his capitalistic powers. He will probably smolder some and, for all the Twilight girls, maybe have a really graphic sex scene on a stairwell.
This is major, as it’s Pattinson’s first role after the Twilight series comes to a close in 2012 with part 2 of Breaking Dawn. It’s also quite clearly an earnest attempt for Pattinson to be seen as a serious actor, because you really can’t do a lot better than David Cronenberg, unless you decide to exhume and reanimate Akira Kurosawa. Good on him, I say. I always got the impression from all the Twilight press that he’s a relatively cool guy that is completely uncomfortable being possibly the biggest male sex symbol in the world. I remember reading about his casting as Edward early on, and he just seemed excited that the studio was going to let his band record a song for the movie.
[Via Deadline]
You read that right.
David Cronenberg has just cast Robert “Edward” Pattinson in his new film Cosmopolis. The Twilight star will play Eric Packer, a financial genius at the heart of an assassination plot thanks to his capitalistic powers. He will probably smolder some and, for all the Twilight girls, maybe have a really graphic sex scene on a stairwell.
This is major, as it’s Pattinson’s first role after the Twilight series comes to a close in 2012 with part 2 of Breaking Dawn. It’s also quite clearly an earnest attempt for Pattinson to be seen as a serious actor, because you really can’t do a lot better than David Cronenberg, unless you decide to exhume and reanimate Akira Kurosawa. Good on him, I say. I always got the impression from all the Twilight press that he’s a relatively cool guy that is completely uncomfortable being possibly the biggest male sex symbol in the world. I remember reading about his casting as Edward early on, and he just seemed excited that the studio was going to let his band record a song for the movie.
[Via Deadline]
