Pattinson, Kidman board Bel Ami for Protagonist
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.
Source: prodweek via Robert Pattinson Life & Source
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OMG,Rob will play along nicole?? This is will be great movie for him
London? Too good to be true…. London?!
London and Budapest..hmm….intriguing indeed… I bet Rob look fwd to be filming in his HOME COUNTRY for a change… :-). ANd playing against Nicole Kidman….very interesting! I so cannot wait to see this movie!
I still won’t let myself believe the London part is true.. don’t wanna be disappointed..
I don’t understand that they will only be filming in London and Budapest… you can’t pretend you are in Paris without all of his monuments! It will be strange… In the book every place is well explained, it’s hard to see it translated to an other filminglocation than Paris itself.
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BUDAPEST??? OMG, my mother is going in the spring. We are 100% Hungarian and I speak, read, and write it. Holy crap, if I had the money and I wasn’t afraid to fly – it would be so surreal to be there! Maybe I can get one of my cousins who live in Budapest to check things out. Oh God, now I sound like one of those crazy fans. Stop it Maria! Calm down! 🙂
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