Hal Holbrook will play the old Robert Pattinson in Francis Lawrence’s Water for Elephants, Pattinson’s next film project (along with Bill Condon’s The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn). Lawrence announced Holbrook’s casting on his Twitter page.
Others in the love triangle/circus drama adapted by Richard LaGravenese from Sara Gruen’s novel are Reese Witherspoon and Christoph Waltz.
Veteran Holbrook, 85, whose wife Dixie Carter (of Designing Women) has recently passed away, was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Sean Penn’s Into the Wild two years ago. (Coincidentally, Penn was originally slated for the role that has ultimately gone to Waltz, while Kristen Stewart, Pattinson’s co-star in the Twilight Saga series, had a supporting role in the film.)
Holbrook was also considered as a potential Best Actor Oscar contender earlier this year, but perhaps because Scott Teems‘ That Evening Sun was so little seen Holbrook’s performance as a determined Tennessee farmer was (unfortunately) ignored by critics’ groups, the Academy, and other award-giving organizations.
In Water for Elephants, Pattinson plays a young veterinary student who abandons college following the death of his parents. He then joins a circus where he’s befriended by a performer (Witherspoon) and is hated by her psychotic husband (Waltz).
Also in the Water for Elephants cast: Stephen Taylor and Renee Diamond.
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