Everyone’s favourite Nazi Christoph Waltz has signed on to star in I Am Legend director Francis Lawrence’s Water For Elephants, according to reports from DeadlineHollywood.

The Inglourious Basterds star will reportedly play a paranoid schizophrenic animal trainer in a circus. Um, OK.

The movie will also star Twilight’s Robert Pattinson as a veterinary student who falls for the circus’ star performer and Waltz’s wife, played by Reese Witherspoon.

Based on the novel by Sara Gruen, the script was penned by Richard LaGravanese, writer of the upcoming Chronicles Of Narnia: Voyage Of The Dawn Treader.

I couldn’t be happier for Waltz; he’s moved straight into the big leagues with his Oscar nominated performance of Colonel Landa in Basterds, to signing on to The Green Hornet, The Talking Cure and now this. Well done.