After being thrust into heartthrob territory with Twilight, Robert Pattinson has been trying to show he’s a multi-faceted talent and doesn’t just have to play teen vampires. He’s got the strange intensity of David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis coming up, and now he’s heading into thriller territory with Mission: Blacklist.

THR reports that the film will follow the true story of the army interrogator who led the capture of Saddam Hussein in 2003. Based on Army interrogator Eric Maddox’s verbosely titled book ‘Mission: Black List #1: The Inside Story of the Search for Saddam Hussein – As Told By the Soldier Who Masterminded His Capture’, the film’s script will be written by Band of Brother’s Erick Jendresen, and directed by Jean-Stephane Sauvaire.

Interestingly while you’d think a film like this would be a military action movie, THR describes it as a psychological thriller, which suggests there’ll be a lot of Pattinson trying to break people down to try and find out where Saddam is hiding.