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"Robert Pattinson has joined the cast of Queen of the Desert. The Twilight star will join Naomi Watts in Werner Herzog&amp;#039;s Gertrude Bell biopic, reports Variety.   Pattinson will play TE Lawrence, the British army officer better known as &amp;#039;Lawrence of Arabia&amp;#039;. The film charts the life of Bell, a writer, archaeologist, explorer, cartographer and political attach\u00C3\u00A9 for the British Empire. Her close friend Lawrence was famously portrayed by Peter O&amp;#039;Toole in David Lean&amp;#039;s classic 1962 film. Ridley Scott is also developing a Bell biopic, with Angelina Jolie rumoured to be eyeing the lead role. Pattinson was most recently seen in David Cronenberg&amp;#039;s Cosmopolis and will next star in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2, the final instalment of the hit film franchise which arrives on November 16. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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