"Robert Pattinson plays a denizen of the Outback in the near future, after a worldwide financial collapse has sent many like him running to the still viable mines of the Australian desert. ""It's like a new gold rush,"" says Michôd. ""Where people from all corners of the world have come out to the desert to scrape out an existence. Petty criminals and miscreants and hustlers."" Guy Pearce, who had an uncharacteristically reserved role in Animal Kingdom, gets to sink his teeth into a nicely nasty part opposite Pattinson. ""The basic story is really quite elemental,"" says Michôd. ""You've got a really dark, dangerous, murderous person in Guy's character, and in Rob's character you have a quite troubled and damaged, but beautiful and naïve, soul."""
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