'Unbound Captives' - New Details Emerge

UPDATE: (6/8) with much better deets and timeline ("start soon") from Nicola Peltz.

It's been a while since we've heard anything about Unbound Captives. Rob talked about his role in the movie set to be directed by Madeleine Stowe, during the New Moon press junket last year:

"I'm playing a kid who is kidnapped by Comanches when he was four years old, and he is brought up by them. His mother spends her entire life trying to find me and my sister. When she finds us, we can't remember who she is and can't remember anything about the Western culture she grew up in. I speak Comanche the whole movie.

Now we hear from two of his co-stars, who gave a little bit of an update on the status of the film. Last night E! Online's @taryder told us she had talked to Nicola Peltz who is also co-starring with Jackson Rathbone in The Last Airbender:

"unbound captive sounds awesome! Got some deets about their characters and movie. Its gonna be a sad one I think"

Taryn later posted an article with what Peltz said: 

"I haven't talked to Rob, but I met Hugh [Jackman], who is also going to be in it. He's so talented and so much fun! We're both really looking forward to working with Rob, too. I can't wait to work with both of them!"


Talk about a hot cast. But what's it about, exactly?


"It's based on the Comanche tribes a while back," said Nicola, pausing for a bit. "It's hard to explain, but it's such a great script.


"Rob plays my brother, and when we're four, we get kidnapped. Our mom looks for us forever until we're about fifteen. We don't even know her when she comes by. And one—well, I can't give you the whole thing—but one of us stays in our tribe and one of us goes back with her."

And there's more! check out the rest, including when Peltz thinks filming will start over at E!Online.

                                    

Then we got an update from Collider, who also talked to Peltz about her role in Unbound Captives:

What do you have coming up after this?
PELTZ: Unbound Captives, I just got cast in it, it hasn’t started filming yet, but it's with Rob Pattinson, Rachel Weisz and Hugh Jackman and Madeline Stowe wrote it and is gonna direct it.

And when do you think you’re gonna start filming?
PELTZ: Not sure, hopefully soon, I cannot wait to do it.

Finally, we understand we might get a bit of a preview from Rachel Weisz, via her interview with Empire Magazine. She is said to mention Unbound Captives as "definitely going ahead."

We'll keep you posted. With all the new projects Rob is involved in, we can't wait for 2011!

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