Robert Pattinson to étoile, star in indie câpre, caper Good Time 

, the film’s directors Josh and Benny Safdie confirmed on Twitter.

will follow a bank robber as he unsuccessfully tries to run from the police. Pattinson will play Connie.

, a documentary-narrative hybrid starring Arielle Holmes, a young heroine junkie living in New York and deeply in love.  

magazine photographer Dennis Stock, who was assigned to take pictures of James Dean in 1955.

directors did not immediately respond to requests for confirmation on his casting. 

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