Robert Pattinson will be seducing Christina Ricci in Bel Ami Filed under ( Bel Ami, Christina Ricci, Robert Pattinson, Uma Thurman )

Robert Pattinson will be seducing Christina Ricci in a new film Bel Ami, Production Weekly have announced.

The film is an adaptation of Guy de Maupassant’s story in which the Twilight star will play cold hearted lothario George Duroy, a young and impoverished Parisian journalist who becomes one of the city’s most successful men.
His success however is down to his ruthless seduction Paris’s most glamorous and influential women.

Those powerful women include Uma Thurman, who plays the wife of a friend, who later goes on to marry Duroy and Kristin Scott Thomas as a socialite who falls for his charms.

Christina Ricci will star as Clotilde de Marelle, a friend who turns her attentions to Duroy during her husband’s prolonged absences.

Bel Ami is set to be released in 2011.

Entertainmentwise

This information has also been confirmed by GossipCop

sually it’s role rumors about Robert Pattinson that draw big attention, but today the buzz is all about a possible future co-star.
An avalanche of outlets picked up a Production Weekly item that reported Christina Ricci will join Pattinson in the upcoming “Bel Ami.” The speculation has Ricci playing a character named Clotilde in the tale of Georges Duroy (Pattinson) and his corrupt rise to power in Paris.
A lot of people asked Gossip Cop whether the casting rumor was true.
We can confirm that it is.
A rep for Ricci tells Gossip Cop the deal was recently signed.