But the real excitement centers on the all-star cast Fox is assembling. Academy Award winner (Walk the Line) Reese Witherspoon has already signed on to play the role of Marlena, the beautiful, horse-loving circus performer. Then it was reported last week that Sean Penn, another Academy Award winner (Milk), will co-star as Marlena’s obsessively jealous husband, August. But the news that has everybody buzzing is that the protagonist, Jacob Jankowski, is going to be played by none other than the Twilight series heartthrob Edward Cullen…errr…Robert Pattinson–who will presumably get some sort of spray tan and fang-ecotmy.

So here’s a big Huzzah! to Sara Gruen, Rosie the elephant, and our newest cinematic obsession!