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VANCOUVER - This has got to be the biggest hunkfest since Robert Redford and Paul Newman teamed to make Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid.

Twilight star Robert Pattinson, currently adding to his repertoire in Vancouver, shooting New Moon, and antipodean swashbuckler Hugh Jackman are teaming to make a 19-th century epic called Captives Unbound.

The Brit-Aussie duo will release enough female drool to fill a bucket brigade. The flick will also star Rachel Weisz as a widow who falls in the good care of macho mountain man Jackman. Pattinson will be her eldest child, so can we expect some Oedipal sparks to fly between the two sexy heroes?

But what's this? The plot features the kidnapping of the frontier lass's children. Maybe Jackman and Pattinson team to defeat evil plains pirates. Twi-hards and X-women can hardly wait to check out this adventure.

The movie will be directed and written by Madeline Stowe, who is used to Hollywood glamour, having appeared in Last of the Mohicans with Daniel Day-Lewis. Stowe herself was picked by Empire magazine as one of the 100 sexiest stars in cinematic history.

To round out the hunkfest with a little history, Russell Crowe offered Stowe a cool $5 million for the rights to her Captives Unbound script in 1993, but she kept her creative fist tightly wrapped on the property.

Now that she's got two of the hottest stars on the planet hitched to her movie, Stowe can bet she'll recoup those fleeting millions and more on opening night.

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