Robert Pattinson will play a Lieutenant in Waiting for the Barbarians

 

IMDbPro changed Rob’s character name in Waiting for the Barbarians to “Lieutenant” rather than “Colonel Joll” which means perhaps they’ve merged characters for his role.  Also, a few articles have popped up in Mexican papers over the past 24 hours, thanks to its producer Olga Segura, mentioning filming this year.  The Mexican Herald is reporting:

“Waiting for the Barbarians”, the acclaimed novel of South African Nobel Prize winner John Maxwell Coetzee, will be taken to the movies by a Mexican.

Olga Segura will produce the project, which will be shot this year at a site to be determined in Africa.”

Whilst Noti Cine is saying:

The filming of the film is scheduled to begin this year and will take place in Chile.

Well it’s being filmed somewhere so hopefully it will be in 2018.

Updated:

Ya compraron el @reforma ? Finalmente platico de nuestra próxima producción “Esperando a los Bárbaros” de J.M. Coetzee ganador del premio Nobel por Literatura en el 2003💃🏽

A post shared by Olga Segura (@olguitasegura) on Feb 13, 2018 at 8:24am PST