Pitt Interested in Fawcett — ‘Lost City’

March 31st, 2008 in Actors, Book-to-Movie, Celebs, Movie News, The Movie Biz

Brad Pitt is interested in producing and possibly starring in “Lost City of Z,” a David Grann manuscript about the search for a lost city in the Amazon, with Brad Pitt’s Plan B shingle.  

You know I can actually see Pitt doing this film because take a read and see what it’s about:

According to Variety, Grann’s forthcoming nonfiction book concerns British explorer Col. Percy Harrison Fawcett, who was attempting to find the so-called City of Z when he and his party disappeared in 1925. Over the next 70 years, scores of explorers tried and failed to retrace Fawcett’s path, including a 1996 expedition of Brazilian adventurers. Pitt would play Fawcett.

When Pitt expressed interest in starring as well as producing, “Lost City of Z,” Paramount moved quickly to buy it. Par previously optioned Grann’s New Yorker article “City of Water.”

Pitt has been a busy actor. He has two films awaiting release: the Coen brothers’ “Burn After Reading,” which Focus Features will open in September, and David Fincher’s “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” which Par will open in December. He is also attached to star in “The Fighter” for the studio. As a producer, Pitt’s next film is Rachel McAdams-Eric Bana starrer “The Time Traveler’s Wife,” set for release in November.

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