Rising Star of 'Twilight' Dons Mustache As Salvador Dali, But Will Fans Accept?

We know this is super lame and that we shouldn’t encourage it, but images of “Twilight” star, Robert Pattinson, as Salvador Dalí have popped up over at MTV. Pattinson will play the famous surrealist artist in the upcoming film, “Little Ashes.”

Pattinson will sport the mustache made famous by Dalí as he chums around with Federico Garcia Lorca (Javier Beltran) and filmmaker Luis Buñuel (Matthew McNulty)in his late teen years at a Madrid university. ‘Ashes’ chronicles the lives of the three men who go through many changes during the beginnings of their professional careers. Ahem.

Out early next year — ‘Ashes’ follows Dali and the famous poet Federico García Lorca as they “find their artistic and sexual freedom in each other.” Umm, hello? Are “Twilight” fans ready to take this leap into the unknown with their hero? According to the IMDB synopsis, things get racy. “Salvador and Federico draw closer, sharing their deepest beliefs, inspirations and secrets, convinced that they have found a kind of friendship undreamt of by others. It is more that a meeting of the minds; it is a fusion of souls. And then one night, in the phosphorescent water, it becomes something else…”

We’re thinking some kind of game of tummy sticks. If that poster doesn’t moan, young-adult erotic tension, we don’t know what does.