The Twilight star Robert Pattonson has landed his first major lead role after the Twilight movies. It’s called Cosmopolis and the film will be directed by David Cronenberg.

Pattinson will star in Cosmopolis, the Don DeLillo novel adaptation that David Cronenberg wrote and will direct. Pattinson, who just starred with Reese Witherspoon and Christoph Waltz in Fox 2000′s Francis Lawrence-directed adaptation of the  Sara Gruen novel Water For Elephants, will play Eric Packer. A financial wunderkind, Packer risks his entire fortune to bet against the yen on a tumultuous day. His deed puts him in the crosshairs for assassination in a drama that is a study of capitalism in a slightly futuristic metropolis. Most of the scenes in the book take place in the limousine that transports Packer from place to place.

Cronenberg is pretty inconsistent with quality, some are good, some are bad. I’m not going to get too excited for this one, but at least he’s not a vampire this time!

Source: Deadline

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