Back in May 2012 we got a Capturing Saddam: The Hunt for Saddam Hussein–As Told by the Unlikely Interrogator Who Spearheaded the Mission“, which was to be simply titled Mission: Blacklist with Robert Pattinson set to star. Since then we haven’t heard much about the project, which was to be directed by Jean-Stephane Sauvaire. That is, until today, and it’s not a good sign.
According to The Wrap, Pattinson has dropped off the project, which would have seen him playing the role of interrogator Eric Maddox on a mission to trap the world’s most wanted man, Saddam Hussein. Oh, yeah, it’s based on a true story, Maddox isn’t an ego maniac that uses his own name for characters in his books.
Sauvaire is still attached to direct with a screenplay by Erik Jendressen, Dylan Kussman and Trace Sheehan. Pattinson simply won’t be involved, his plate, however, is still full.
Pattinson will be in Cannes with David Cronenberg‘s Maps to the Stars and David Michod‘s The Rover and he has just completed work on Anton Corbijn‘s Life and has Werner Herzog‘s Queen of the Desert in the can with projects from James Gray and James Marsh still on the way. Yeah, it seems the Twilight star is doing just fine.
