Robert Pattinson Teaming Up With Carey Mulligan For James Marsh's Hold On To Me 0 Comments published: 2012-10-16 15:47:45 Author: Eric Eisenberg (CINEMA BLEND)

If Carey Mulligan isn't careful she is going to earn the jealousy of women worldwide. Just last year she got to star alongside both Ryan Gosling and Michael Fassbender in Drive and Shame, respectively, and now she's going to get the chance to work alongside yet another one of Hollywood's biggest heartthrobs. Robert Pattinson, who has the final film in the Twilight franchise due out next month, has been cast alongside Mulligan in the drama Hold on To Me.

Deadline has learned that the project is being sold at the American Film Market, and the project has Academy Award winning filmmaker James Marsh attached to helm. Based on a true story, the movie will have Mulligan playing a "femme fatale who with her boyfriend kidnaps and ransoms the town’s richest man." The plan, however, goes horribly wrong and they have to bury the body. Pattinson will be playing Jimmy, the "woman’s life love." Brad Ingelsby, who wrote the upcoming Scott Cooper thriller Out of the Furnace, is writing the screenplay.

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Sundance film festival hands prizes to 'dark and grim' films (Guardian)

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Outside the competition, there was British success for Oscar-winning UK film-maker James Marsh, whose film Shadow Dancer was well-received. It tells the story of an Irish mother from an IRA-supporting family who is encouraged to become an informant by MI5. Starring Clive Owen and Andrea Riseborough, it was described by Wise as a "film that will surprise those who know Marsh only from his docs – the Oscar-winning Man on Wire and Bafta-nominated Project Nim – and also cement the director's reputation as one of the UK's leading auteurs".

Sundance, which was founded as the Utah/US film festival in Salt Lake City in August 1978 and took on its present moniker in 1991 following several years of Redford's involvement and sponsorship, has become known as the premier US event for independent film-making. Recent years have seen films such as An Education, Precious and Little Miss Sunshine, all of which screened at the festival, go on to win major awards.



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