First Look: Guy Pearce Threatening Robert Pattinson in ‘The Rover’

If seeing Robert Pattinson step outside his sparkly vampire self from The Twilight Saga for more serious dramas like Water for Elephants and Cosmopolis just didn’t sit right with you, then we have a new film that might work. David Michôd made a splash with his low key Australian crime drama Animal Kingdom starring Joel Edgerton, and now he’s back with The Rover. The film sees Pattinson in the middle of the desert sometime in the near future after a financial collapse has sent many away from the city to all corners of the world to try and live on as little as they can. Many have become hustlers, petty criminals and other seedy characters and Guy Pearce looks to be one of them in this first look photo from the film. Look below! Here’s a first look at David Michôd’s The Rover from EW: David Michôd writes and directs The Rover (with the story coming from the director’s Animal Kingdom star Joel …