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Update: Pattinson and Kidman Come Together for Bel Ami?

Source:  ScreenDaily.com
November 4, 2009


Screen Daily is reporting that actress Nicole Kidman will be joining "Twilight" star Robert Pattinson in Bel Ami, a biopic about 19th Century French writer Guy de Maupassant, a young man who scandalously slept his way to the top of Paris' high society in the 1890's with some of the city's most influential women.

The film will be helmed by acclaimed British theater directors Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod of the award-winning Cheek by Jowl theater company, making their feature film directorial debut working from a script by Rachel Bennette.The film is to start shooting in London and Budapest in February of next year.

Earlier this year, Pattinson portrayed famed Spanish artist Salvador Dali in Paul Morrison's LIttle Ashes and Kidman famously played British author Virginia Woolf in Stephen Daldry's The Hours, for which she received an Oscar. One can safely presume Kidman will play one of de Maupassant's more prominent female benefactors and bedmates.

UPDATE: Gossip Cop has learned from Kidman's rep that this project is "categorically not happening for her."

(Thanks to "Mary Chan" for bringing this story to our attention.)

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COMMENTS (11)

Posted by:
helen
November 4, 2009
I cant wait to see Rob in this film. The script is excellent. There's a number of juicy female roles but I suspect Nicole will play Madeleine.
Posted by:
amitiel
November 4, 2009
Let's see how fast Pattinson can waste his "Twilight" capital on all of these pseudo-intellectual sex-themed pieces of "art" cinema. I give it maybe six months after the last Twilight film is released before he starts making more reasonable mainstream choices (i.e. ones which match his limited range) or his flicks start going straight to DVD. He is Britain's answer to Keanu Reeves, and I LIKE Keanu Reeves.
Posted by:
immature
November 4, 2009
Yes, 'cause actors should never try to stretch themselves.
Posted by:
elner
November 4, 2009
wow what a line up...this looks great..
Posted by:
AntoBlueberry
November 4, 2009
Protagonist Films is just handling the foreign sales. Uberto Pasolini's Redwave Films is producing.
Posted by:
bianca
November 4, 2009
i think its a good step for Rob's career...at least he is not sticking to chick-flicks...anyway he is still young lots to prove
Posted by:
Matthew H.
November 4, 2009
Did someone just say "wow what a line up"? THERE ARE TWO PEOPLE CAST. One of which can actually act. The other starred in Twilight.
Posted by:
Fresh
November 4, 2009
Yawn. Sounds like the male version of Vanity Fair. Ill pass.
Posted by:
João Paulo - Brasil
November 4, 2009
Two big actors one movie i can wait i love Nicole Kidman
Posted by:
Skippy
November 4, 2009
This isn't a biopic, it's an adaptation of a novel written by Guy de Maupassant.

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