OOoooh, a fresh contender for the "dreamiest cast ever" prize! Rachel Weisz, Hugh Jackman and Robert Pattinson are set to star in Unbound Captives, the directorial debut of Last of the Mohicans star Madeleine Stowe.
The film will see Weisz play a woman in 1859 America, whose husband is killed and two children kidnapped by a Comanche war party. She is rescued by a frontiersman (Jackman, risking similar ground to Australia), and we're assuming that the pair set off in search of the kids - one of which will be played by Pattinson (meaning that Weisz would've had to deliver him when she was 15, for those keeping score on age differences).
It also sounds a bit Mohicans to us (although of course it's set a couple of hundred years later), so it will come as no surprise that Stowe also wrote the script several years ago. She actually turned down a multi-million dollar offer for Ridley Scott to direct and Russell Crowe to star, because she wanted a guarantee of the female lead, but has now contented herself with directing instead - and more power to her.
Veteran cinematographer John Toll (Tropic Thunder, Seraphim Falls) will be behind the camera with Stowe, and the hope is that production will start by the end of the year, giving Pattinson time to finish New Moon and Weisz time to finish publicity on The Lovely Bones.