When MTV News caught up with “Twilight” producer Wyck Godfrey recently to discuss Pattinson and Kristen Stewart’s chances of another Best Kiss win at the 2012 MTV Movie Awards on Sunday (June 3), he revealed that he and Pattinson might be cooking up some post-“Breaking Dawn – Part 2” work plans, in the form of a big-screen adaptation of a crime thriller.
“There’s a book called “The Professionals,” which is a new crime thriller that Rob has read and really likes,” Godfrey said of Owen Laukkanen’s well-received debut novel. “We’re just starting to look at a writer [to adapt it]. It’s kind of a ‘Bonnie and Clyde’ for today, and he would be fantastic in the role. It’s in the early days; we’ll see.”
A modern-day version of “Bonnie and Clyde” sounds gritty and violent no matter which way you look at it. We asked Godfrey if he sees this potential big-screen crime thriller as a PG-13- or R-rated film for Pattinson.
On Nov. 18, he’ll reprise his role as vampire/new father Edward Cullen opposite Kristen Stewart in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn— Part 2, the final installment in Stephenie Meyer’s behemoth series.
But before that, he’ll appear in a surreal role as a Wall Street banker in David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis (due in August), which earned a standing ovation for its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival.
“I used to think it was a good thing to have a safety net,” says Pattinson, 26, of his starmaking Twilight role. “To know you’re always safe is not real. It’s got to matter.”
So after Breaking Dawn, Pattinson will launch into a busy slate of projects that are starting to take shape.
“I have five things going — actually six,” he says. “I’m pretty sure I know which one is going to be first.”
That would be Mission: Blacklist (2013), based on the true story of the interrogator credited with locating Saddam Hussein after the fall of his regime. After that, Pattinson will head to Australia with Guy Pearce to shoot The Rover, a thriller set in the post-apocalyptic future. It will be directed by David Michod (who wrote and directed 2010’s critically acclaimed Aussie film Animal Kingdom).
Like his role in Cosmopolis, this movie doesn’t quite fit into a box.
“It’s really complicated to explain,” Pattinson says, laughing. “I seem to like choosing movies lately that are difficult to promote.”
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