Inglourious Basterds' Christoph Waltz (above) will apparently be taking the place tentatively allotted to Sean Penn as the co-star of Reese Witherspoon and Robert Pattinson in Francis Lawrence's upcoming film adaptation of Sara Gruen's bestselling novel Water for Elephants, according to Deadline.com. If all goes well, Waltz, who has proven himself more than capable of bringing to life evil characters, will play Witherspoon’s meanie husband in this drama set in a Depression-era traveling circus.
Witherspoon will play the rider Marlena, the wife of a psycho animal trainer (that's Waltz), while Pattinson will be the young runaway and former veterinary student she befriends. Production on Water for Elephants is expected to begin in June (by then the film should have two Oscar winners in its cast), though Pattinson is currently working on Bel Ami and Waltz is scheduled to star for David Cronenberg in The Talking Cure, in which he'll play Sigmund Freud. Keira Knightley and Michael Fassbender will be his co-stars in this one. Additionally, Waltz will be seen as the baddie in The Green Hornet later this year.
I didn't know about this, but Robert Pattinson played Reese Witherspoon's son in a sequence — later deleted — from Vanity Fair. I'm not sure if that bit has resurfaced on the film's DVD.
Photo: Inglourious Basterds (François Duhamel / The Weinstein Co.)
The deleted scene of Robert Pattinson in Vanity Fair is on the extra's section of the DVD.
I recently read the book "Water For Elephants" and I think the movie people made the right choice casting Rob as Jacob Janowski, but I am sorry to hear that Sean Penn may not be playing Marlena's husband. It's a movie I will defenitely be going to see