'Twilight' star Robert Pattinson could be set for a new screen romance.
Pattinson and Sean Penn are in talks to star opposite Reese Witherspoon in a new historical drama, 'Water for Elephants'.
Variety reports that the film is based on the bestselling novel of the same name by Sara Gruen and tells the story of an elderly man who recalls his life during the Depression.
During the 1930s he worked at a circus and fell in love with the wife of an abusive animal trainer.
