The Hollywood Reporter has announced that Uma Thurman and Kristin Scott Thomas will be joining Robert Pattinson in the film Bel Ami.
The film, which was inspired by the novel of the same name written by French author Guy de Maupassant, tells the story of George Duroy, a young journalist who, by sleeping with influential women of high society France in the 1890s, earns his ranking among the upper class.
Thurman will play the wife of Duroy’s friend who has an abundance of contacts, and will help the young man climb up the social ladder. She will later become his wife.
Thomas’s character will also fall for the charms of the young journalist, as she desperately clings to him.
The film will mark the directorial cinema debut for theatre directors Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod.
Uma Thurman will star in Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, opening February 12. Meanwhile, Kristin Scott Thomas recently wrapped up Nowhere Boy, although the film does not yet have an official opening date in North America.