Robert Pattinson ... Who?

From MTV - Rob talks Bel Ami, Breaking Dawn, and Spiderman!

Following the November blockbuster release of “New Moon,” Robert Pattinson has maintained a relatively low profile as he geared up to begin filming “Bel Ami” alongside Uma Thurman in Europe. That cloud of welcome anonymity is about to break, though, as the PR machine ramps up for another RPattz film release: the romantic drama “Remember Me.”

In an interview with the Scottish Daily Record, Pattinson spoke of his paranoia about relationships, the eventual end of the “Twilight” series and some very intimate on-camera time he’ll soon share with Thurman.

“The sex scenes with Uma are kind of disturbing,” he said. “Her character kind of uses sex as a sort of weapon and my character thinks like an animal. There’s a lot of sex scenes in this film, so I’m asking quite a lot of myself, and with lots of different people as well.”

In “Bel Ami,” Pattinson plays a Parisian journalist and playboy who courts his friend’s wife (Thurman) and eventually marries her. Filming is set to take place across Europe, from London to Budapest.

During the interview, Pattinson also spoke about the frustration of planning his life around the “Twilight,” as there’s still no set date for production on “Breaking Dawn,” nor any definitive word about whether the final book in the vampire series will become two films or just one.

“Not knowing when ‘Breaking Dawn’ is going to shoot — because it changes all the time — is a kind of burden, to have this thing where you don’t know when it’s going to happen,” Pattinson said. “So you’ve got to organize everything in your life around that and that can be difficult.”

Problematic as well is his increasing lack of privacy in his personal life, particularly given the persistent rumors that he’s in a relationship with “Twilight” co-star Kristen Stewart.

“If you meet a crowd of people, a lot of times you think someone is going to say something, someone could be going to sell a story about you,” he admitted. “The majority of times, nothing bad ever happens, but having that paranoia there is very annoying.”

One story — or rather, one outlandish casting rumor — should now be put to rest. Any wish on the part of some fans that the rebooted “Spider-Man” franchise will star Pattinson as Peter Parker is just that: a wish, with no basis in reality.

“I don’t think I’m going to be playing Spider-Man, even though I would quite like to do it,” he said.

It’s official casting has been completed for the upcoming Uma Thurman/Robert Pattison flick Bel Ami!

Principal photography on BEL AMI is to start on February 7th 2010, shooting on locations in London and Budapest.

Robert Pattinson (Twilight series, Remember Me) plays Georges Duroy in this erotically charged story of ambition, power and seduction. Uma Thurman (Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill) is Madeleine, Kristin Scott Thomas (Nowhere Boy, I’ve Loved You So Long) is Virginie, Christina Ricci (Monster, The Ice Storm) is Clotilde, Holly Grainger (Scouting Book for Boys) is Suzanne, Philip Glenister (Life on Mars, Calendar Girls) is Charles, and Colm Meaney (The Damned United, The Snapper) plays Duroy’s adversary, Rousset. The screenplay is written by Rachel Bennette from the novel by Guy de Maupassant, and the film is directed by the influential and innovative Cheek By Jowl directors Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod.

BEL AMI is the story of Georges Duroy, who travels through 1890s Paris, from cockroach ridden garrets to opulent salons, using his wits and powers of seduction to rise from poverty to wealth, from a prostitute’s embrace to passionate trysts with wealthy beauties, in a world where politics and media jostle for influence, where sex is power and celebrity an obsession.

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Robert Pattinson is about to turn up the heat on his new movie, Bel Ami, when shooting begins in February.

The 23-year-old Twilight hunk will be playing journalist Georges Duroy in the film adaptation of Guy de Maupassant’s 19th century novel, and Georges isn’t quite the faithful boyfriend that Edward Cullen is!

Life & Style has obtained the Bel Ami screenplay - check out some highlights!

“One of his sex romps with Christina [Ricci] finds both their characters surprised by the intensity of the racy encounter,” the mag says. “Tender, aching moments pass before Georges asks Christina’s Clotilde, ‘Now?’ And he doesn’t stop there.”

Rob’s character also gets friendly with characters played by Uma Thurman and Kristin Scott Thomas!

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Los Angeles Confidential has a new interview with Uma Thurman, who will be one of the actresses staring alongside Eclipse’s #1 Vampire Robert Pattinson.

In the interview she touches base on Robert, and her role in the movie -

LAC: What’s special about your upcoming film Bel Ami besides Robert Pattinson, who is so big right now, being your costar?

UT: He is a big star right now. I’m excited because the film is a classical, technical piece of work, and it’s beautiful. It’s a bit of bedroom drama. It’s a romance between Rob and a number of Parisian housewives.

LAC: And you’re one of the love interests?

UT: I end up marrying him, but there are some twists. My daughter is like, “Mom, why do you keep getting these roles where you’re getting younger men?” And I said, “Well at least I don’t do it in real life.”

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Robert Pattinson is just surrounded by gorgeous and talented women!

In addition to Uma Thurman and Kristin Scott Thomas, the 23-year-old British actor will romance Christina Ricci in the upcoming romance Bel Ami, according to a tweet by ProductionWeekly.

In Bel Ami, Robert plays young journalist George Duroy, who rises from rags to riches by seducing Paris’ influential society women. Christina will play Clotilde de Marelle, the wife of an oft-away railway inspector who strikes up a relationship with Duroy.

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Robert Pattinson has finally found his leading lady for his next film. And no, it’s not the much-rumored Nicole Kidman.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Uma Thurman will star opposite Pattinson in “Bel Ami.” Based on the famous Guy de Maupassant short story, “Ami” follows young journalist George Duroy (Pattinson) who deviously jumped from the bed of one of Paris’ most influential women to another to make his way to the top. Thurman will play the wife of a friend of Duroy’s who assists him in is ascent and later becomes his wife.

Also joining the cast is Kristin Scott Thomas. The Oscar-nominee will play a socialite who falls for Duroy, but just can’t let go when he’s ready to move on.

Thurman will appear next as Medusa in 20th Century Fox’s “Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief.”

Pattinson stars in this weekend’s expected blockbuster, “The Twilight Saga: New Moon” and in next summer’s “Remember Me.”

“Bel Ami” is expected to begin shooting in Paris next year.

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UPDATE:

It is NOT true that Kidman will star opposite Pattinson. While she did consider the project, the film’s timing didn’t work out. Kidman’s rep told Gossip Cop that “Bel Ami” is “categorically not happening for her.”

From Screen Daily:

In an intriguing star pairing, Twilight sensation Robert Pattinson is teaming with Nicole Kidman to star in Bel Ami, the film of Guy De Maupassant’s erotically charged story of ambition, power and seduction. Multi-award winning UK theatre directors Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod are directing from a screenplay by Rachel Bennette.

London-based Protagonist has taken on international sales to the film.

Uberto Pasolini (The Full Monty) will produce, with Simon Fuller of 19 Entertainment acting as executive producer. The film will shoot in London and Budapest from February 2010.

Donnellan and Ormerod, whose Cheek By Jowl is widely regarded as one of the most influential theatre companies in the world, will make their feature debut with this story about a young man’s rise to the top of Parisian high society in the 1890s, via the beds of the city’s most glamorous and influential women.

In a world where politics and media jostle for influence, where sex is power and celebrity an obsession, the film has, say the producers, a contemporary relevance which should resonate with audiences worldwide.

Bel Ami is a Redwave Films production in association with 19 Entertainment, Protagonist Pictures and RaiCinema. RAI has Italian rights. All other territories will be sold by Protagonist, which has already commenced pre-sales on the film.

From a NZ Herald News article. Rob talks about the Twilight fans, playing “himself” in Remember Me, learning new skills for Unbound Captives and gaining weight for Bel Ami! I am SO excited to see him in these new roles.

He’s bigger than Ben-Hur at the moment, if you believe all the hype. Yet to come face-to-face with Robert Pattinson is to meet a serious artist, a multi-talented individual who could as easily have been a classical or funky musician as a movie star.

The Twilight juggernaut is propelling the 23-year-old British actor to the heights of mega stardom and, having previously only played minor roles, most notably as Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, he is making the most of it.

The small independent movie, Remember Me, was able to go ahead as the result of his casting and Pattinson is now in Unbound Captives, a western set in 1859, where the world’s sexiest youngster gets to act alongside the “Sexiest Man Alive”, Hugh Jackman. (Kate:Less of the youngster please, Rob is all man!)

“The Twilight fans are so devoted, even fanatical, that I’m now able to do so many films,” Pattinson says. “The economy is just so bad at the moment. I don’t care if they think I’m right for the part or not. I can get their movie made, which is great.”

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“If everything goes as schedule, in January I’ll be filming Bel Ami in Paris for 3 months, after which I’ll start filming the fourth and last Twilight movie, Breaking Dawn.”

Summer is a scarce word for Pattinson. “I’m pretty much booked for the next two years. I’ve got one week at the end of the summer to see my friend, whom in the end, I’ll forget even exists. It’s crazy!”

Rob admits that he is nervous about what the future will bring them when “Twilight” comes to an end.

“It scares me a little,” he said. “When I go to meetings for other projects, the people I meet with only seem interested in the convergence of Edward Cullen and I.”

And with his growing fans, other projects would love to bring those fans along board. “It’s like, ‘If the role interests you and you can bring the public from Twilight, you’ve got it’. They’d let me play a woman I think.”

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According to the Lyon Plus, a French newspaper, Robert Pattinson will be in Paris for 3 months at the end of the summer to shoot his new movie - the adaptation of the novel Bel-Ami written by Maupassant.

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