Check Out Robert Pattinson's Southern Drawl In The Trailer For 'Rover' [Trailer + Pictures]

Robert Pattinson plays a young man called Rey in ‘The Rover’. He gets caught up in a tumultuous and perennially unnerving coalition with a stranger, Eric (Guy Pearce), in a not-too-distant future in this new film from David Michod, the writer-director of Animal Kingdom.

At the centre of any attention paid to ‘The Rover’ is Pattinson, who is following the not-un-trodden path from teenage pinup to ‘serious’ actor. “I don't know if I'm necessarily any good at sculpting a career or anything. But I know what I want to do,” he explained in an interview to The Sydney Morning Herald.

He wanted to be part of The Rover because “it was an original script and it was one of those parts where you read it and you think, 'I'd love to do this, but I know I'm never going to get it.’”

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The film takes place “in an unspecified relatively near future, after a number of years of quite seriously steady Western economic decline,'' Michod says. ''It's not post-apocalypse. This is an Australia that has broken down into a kind of resource-rich Third World country.” The plot synopsis, meanwhile, doesn’t allude to this contextual backdrop, suggesting that the dilapidated state of Australia adds nuance to the plot rather than dominating its twists and turns.

‘The Rover’ will enjoy its Cannes debut this Sunday (May 18) before hitting France on June 4. The Sydney Film Festival will follow on June 7 with the American release taking place – on a limited basis – on June 13. The U.K will see it on August 22.

Check out more photos from 'The Rover' below