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Robert Pattinson's Future Is About To Get 'Really Tough'

'Breaking Dawn' star heads into the future with 'The Rover' and into the depths of Iraq with 'Mission: Blacklist.'

MTV Pattinson stars alongside Guy Pearce in director David Michod's "The Rover," a futuristic Western set in the Australian desert. Pearce stars as Eric, a no-nonsense loner who loses his car and only remaining possessions when he's robbed by a gang. Eric forcefully enlists one of the abandoned and wounded gang members, Rey (Pattinson), to help him track down the gang and get his belongings back at any cost. It's a complicated and dangerous plot indeed, but it's also one that Pattinson is more than happy to embrace.

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"It's a really tough script," he told MTV News while promoting "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 2." "I don't really know, I don't even know how to talk about it yet. It's one of the best I've read. It's one of my top five favorite scripts I've read since I started doing this. It's really nerve-racking."

Nerve-racking as "The Rover" is, it pales in comparison to the real-life dangers presented by "Mission: Blacklist," Pattinson's upcoming war movie based on the true story of Army interrogator Eric Maddox, who was involved in the capture of Saddam Hussein. The role requires Pattinson to film in Iraq, which understandably made his family members uncomfortable at first — but the actor thinks his loved ones are beginning to warm up to the idea.

"My parents seem to be coming around to it now," he said with a laugh. "That's strange. I don't know what happened."