'The Twilight Saga: Eclipse' star Xavier Samuel lands 'Bait'

'The Twilight Saga: Eclipse' star Xavier Samuel lands 'Bait'



Australia's The Herald Sun is reporting that Xavier Samuel ("Riley" in The Twilight Saga: Eclipse) has scored a new film role in a 3-D thriller entitled Bait.

"[T]he estimated $20 million thriller . . . is about a tsunami that hits a seaside town, trapping local shoppers and tourists in a flooded underground shopping centre with a pack of hungry sharks," reports The Herald Sun.

Bait will co-star Step Up: 3D star Sharni Vinson, and it will be filmed in Queenland's Gold Coast.

This won't be the first time Samuel has worked with water (in Eclipse, Drowning, and Newcastle, for instance), nor is it the first thriller he'll have been in (The Loved Ones, Road Kill).

His film Anonymous (which co-stars The Twilight Saga: New Moon star Jamie Campbell Bower) has a release date of September 23rd in the U.S.