Nicole Kidman To Star With Robert Pattinson

According to Screen Daily, Kidman and Pattinson will be starring in the biopic about the life of French writer, Guy de Maupassant.

Maupassant slept with some of the most influential women of his time, thereby becoming a member of Parisian high society.  The author died in Paris in July 1893 at the age of 42, after having gone mad.

The film will mark the directorial debut of British theatre directors Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod.  The script was written by Rachel Bennett.  Filming is set to begin in February in London and Budapest.

In the meantime, we can next see Nicole Kidman in the musical flick Nine, which hits theatres on December 25.  Robert Pattinson can be seen in The Twilight Saga: New Moon, which opens on November 20.  He will also star in Remember Me, to be released on February 12, 2010.