A stellar line up has assembled for Francis Lawrence’s adaptation of Sara Gruen’s novel Water for Elephants and this is your first chance to see celebrated Twilight man Robert Pattinson looking wistful and determined (possibly at an elephant) alongside his co-stars Reese Witherspoon and Christoph Waltz, who joined the cast earlier in the year.

Pattinson plays a tragedy struck medical surgeon who runs away and joins the circus only to fall under the spell of the wife of an unhinged animal trainer (that is – he is unhinged, not the animals he trains – although that would make for a great film too). Witherspoon is the wife, Waltz is the trainer, Pattinson will insert himself into the mix with, no doubt, troubling consequences.

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This image came to us from the Algonquin book catalogue via Collider.