Robert Pattinson Joins 'The Childhood of a Leader' Cast, Post-World War I Film About Hitler? [VIDEO]
Robert Pattinson has just singed on to star in the new film The Childhood of a Leader, based on the childhood of a post-World War I leader.
There is no news on what role the actor will be playing in the film, which also stars Juliette Binoche and Tim Roth. The movie will explore the childhood of a post-WWI leader, which Vulture predicts is Hitler.
Filming is scheduled to begin in Europe in May.
Pattinson is currently working on The Lost City of Z. His costar Benedict Cumberbath will be playing a famous British explorer who travels to the Amazon in his search for the mysterious City of Z. His son (Pattinson) accompanies him, but the explorer inexplicably disappears.
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Pattinson also recently wrapped David Cronenberg's Maps to the Stars with Mia Wakowski and David Michod's The Rover, co-starring Guy Pearce and Scoot McNairy. Both films are slated to hit theaters in 2014.
The Childhood of a Leader will be actor Brady Corbet's debut as a feature film director. Corbet previously worked on the short film Protect You + Me, which received an honorable mention at the Sundance Film Festival in 2009.
Corbet also co-wrote the script for The Childhood of A Leader with Mona Fastvold, whom he worked with on 2014's The Sleepwalker.
Corbet's previous credits include acting roles in Simon Killer, Melancholia and Martha Macy May Marlene. He recently finished working on Noah Baumbach's While We're Young, Andrea Di Stefano's Paradise Lost, and Olivier Assayas' Sils Maria.
Get a first look at Pattinson and Wakowski in Maps to the Stars:
