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Paramount ’s The Lost City of Z has found a director, James Gray, will adapt the David Grann book for Brad Pitt to star in as British soldier and spy Percy Fawcett.

According to Variety, the nonfiction book by Grann, a staffer at the New Yorker, will be published in April by Doubleday.  Fawcett left Victorian society to explore in the Amazon, and he became obsessed by the idea of an advanced civilization he called Z, which he believed existed in the depths of the jungle. Along with his son, Fawcett headed into the jungle in 1925 in search of Z and was never seen again.

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Variety reports that James Gray is now attached to direct The Lost City of Z for Paramount Pictures and Plan B. Brad Pitt is set to appear in the film.

Gray will adapt the film from David Grann’s upcoming non-fiction book about British soldier and spy Percy Fawcett – played by Pitt – who left Victorian society to explore the Amazon. Fawcett became obsessed by the idea of an advanced civilization he called “Z”, which he believes existed in the depths of the jungle. He headed into the jungle in 1925 along with his son and was never seen again.

No starting date for the project was given.

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