He starred in two non-Twilight projects in the past two years: Remember Me and Water for Elephants.

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Water for Elephants has potential.

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For now, it looks like new director Francis Lawrence (helmer of Constantine, I Am Legend, and Water For Elephants) is fitting right in, even perhaps eschewing some of the shaky cam work that Hunger Games director Gary Ross included in the first and third acts to much dismay.

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It is not clear how and why the ancestor of elephants left the water for a life on land.

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