Pattinson portrays predator catcher Chris Hansen

New role for Robert Pattinson: the British actor who became globally famous thanks to the Twilight saga will play Chris Hansen, the “predator catcher” from the television program To Catch a Predator, in the upcoming film Primetime.

A24 has released the first trailer for director Lance Oppenheim’s film, in which 40-year-old Pattinson portrays Hansen — now 66 years old — during the peak popularity of To Catch a Predator in the mid-2000s, CE Report quotes ANSA.

“In 2006, To Catch a Predator host Chris Hansen sets out to make television history,” reads the film’s short synopsis.

The trailer shows Hansen/Pattinson questioning how the men accused on the program — in which Hansen confronted adult men who believed they were about to meet minors for sex — would have behaved if the situations had not been orchestrated by the television show.

The film appears to follow Hansen during a confrontation with a character played by Skyler Gisondo.

To Catch a Predator aired until 2007.

Afterward, Hansen produced several “spiritual successors” to the show, including the investigative magazine program Crime Watch Daily and Takedown with Chris Hansen on the TruBlu platform.

Primetime is one of several films starring Robert Pattinson released over the past year. Last autumn, the actor appeared alongside Jennifer Lawrence in the drama Die My Love, while in April he starred with Zendaya in the dark comedy The Drama. In July, Pattinson will appear in The Odyssey directed by Christopher Nolan, while in December he will play the villain in the third installment of Dune alongside Timothee Chalamet.

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