Nov 20, 2009

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Kristin Scott Thomas and Uma Thurman join Robert Pattinson in Bel Ami

The Hollywood Reporter has posted news that Uma Thurman and Kristin Scott Thomas will join Robert Pattinson in next year’s adaptation of Guy de Maupassant’s Bel Ami.

Thurman will play the wife of Duroy’s (Pattinson) friend, who is extremely involved and connected in the on-goings of Parisian soceity. She will help in Duroy’s ascent, later becoming his wife.

Kristin Scott-Thomas will play a socialite who falls for Duroy, becoming clingy in the process.

The film will be directed by London theater director Declan Donnellan, with Uberto Pasolini producing through his Redwave Films. Production is set to begin next year in Paris.

“Bel Ami” tells of George Duroy (Pattinson), a young journalist who rose from poverty to become one of the most successful men in Paris via the ruthless and calculating bedding of the city’s most glamorous and influential women.

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