Thurman is Pattinson's older woman

Uma Thurman is set to become the envy of teenage girls across the world - she is to romance Robert Pattinson in a new movie.

The 39 year old has been cast alongside the Twilight hunk, 23, in an adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's short story Bel Ami, about a young male journalist who sleeps his way into high society by seducing a string of glamorous and influential women.

Kristin Scott Thomas will also play one of Pattinson's conquests in the new film, which is scheduled to begin filming Paris, France next year (10).

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