Saturday, January 23, 2010

From Don Covington


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Twilight heartthrob Robert Pattinson and Oscar winner Sean Penn are in negotiations to star with Reese Witherspoon in Water For Elephants. The film will be an adaptation of Sara Gruen’s 2006 bestseller of the same name about a love triangle among circus employees in Depression-era America.

Robbie would play Jacob Jankowski, an orphaned veterinary student who is put in charge of caring for the animals in a travelling circus. He falls in love with beautiful equestrian rider Marlena (Reese) who is married to the troupe’s charismatic but dangerous animal trainer August (Sean).

3 comments:

Clownron said...

Good enough book, but it read like a movie treatment. Writers have learned if they get it in book form they have more power and creative input when the producers/studios want to tinker with it. Same with The Da Vinci Code. You could almost see the movie as you read the book... never thought of Tom Hanks though.

Anonymous said...

So far they haven't selected an elephant.

Chic Silber said...

Maybe they will do it with

"Anna May Shun"

(would have been a great title

for a specialty number)