Brad Pitt spent many months in England last year filming Fury, a World War II movie with Shia LaBeouf, Scott Eastwood and a gaggle of young dudes. The premise of the film sounded sort of interesting, but it also felt like Brad had sort of been there/done that with WWII films. He’s done several in that period of history, like the very memorable Inglorious Basterds. And now he might be returning to the era. Seriously! Why can’t Brad make a Vietnam-era movie?!
Brad Pitt is circling an untitled WWII romantic thriller which Steven Knight has scripted for Graham King’s GK Films. While it’s not a done deal yet and not yet set with a distributor, I’m hearing it’s serious and that a big director will be set with an eye toward starting production early next year.
Pitt produced and co-starred in Best Picture Oscar winner 12 Years A Slave, and he just finished another WWII battlefield film, the David Ayer-directed Fury, which Sony Pictures releases November 14. Pitt also worked the WWII terrain in the Quentin Tarantino-directed Inglourious Basterds. He also starred in and is prepping a sequel to World War Z. He’s repped by CAA and Brillstein.
Knight scripted Eastern Promises, and more recently the British series Peaky Blinders, the Helen Mirren-starrer The Hundred Foot Journey for DreamWorks, and he wrote and directed Locke with Tom Hardy. He’s repped by CAA and United Agents.
Well, the screenwriter has done some interesting projects and I could totally see Brad wanting to work with Knight. Plus, Brad and Angelina have close ties to Graham King and GK Films, so I could also see how he would sign on to do a film with King. I would like to know more about the story, because whenever I hear “WWII romantic thriller,” my mind goes to Casablanca and The English Patient. While I love both of those films, I’m not sure I want to see Brad Pitt in that kind of “duty-before-love” or “making-love-while-the-world-falls-apart” movie. We’ll see! Perhaps Brad just doesn’t want his first post-Oscar film to be a zombie sequel, you know?
PS… You know who does WWII-period films really well and would be a great romantic lead along with Brad? Julianne Moore. Seriously! I bet they would love working with each other.
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I want Julianne Moore in more high profile things–I love her…..plus, The End of the Affair, anyone?
Love Julianna Moore, I’d love to see her and Brad co star in something.
Angie to direct and Star along with Pitt. I miss that thermonuclear chemistry. I can also be in it if they want. My dream “Ménage à trois”. 😉
Edit : The English patient is a WW I movie.
Fantastic chemistry I must say 😉
No, The English Patient is a WWII movie. I just watched it again last week.
Rigth. My mistake 🙂
All I can say is that Bradley William Pitt is one hot man! And Angelina Jolie is one lucky woman to be doing him everyday and night!
Le sigh I can’t get over his hotness… Now I feel So hot that am fanning myself!
To be fair he is also a Lucky man to have that Goddess sleeping with him every nigth. 😉
yeah i can never tell if im more jealous of brad or angelina!
True! They are So hot together it could be explosive 😉 but damn he looks So f*cking hot for 50!
Brad Pitt + Julianne Moore, I would definitely watch it!
I see So much of him in Shiloh! Even the hand gestures and facial expressions.
Me too. If you see pictures of him when he was a kid you can tell that of all his children Shiloh is the one with his cheeks. Her nose is Angie but the more she grows the more she looks like Brad.
So true! of all his kids she bares the most striking resemblance to him. She has Angie’s nose and lips.
Unbroken is also a WW II movie…
Yes. I read that Book 2 years ago. There is nothing romantic on that book. My God what a story. An absolutely devastating book.
Another film set in WWII? Sounds bland. Haven’t been excited about a Brad Pitt film since the Assassination of Jesse James, which is unfortunate since he’s a good actor.
Brad’s got several irons in the fire. Check this out:
http://www.dailydot.com/entertainment/brad-pitt-film-right-anonymous-steubenville/
Just saw this on JJ–
Brad Pitt‘s production company Plan B has just acquired a new film based on the Rolling Stone article “Anonymous Vs. Steubenville.”
Right off of their Oscar win for 12 Years a Slave, Brad, Dede Gardner and their company will produce the movie “based on a true story about a hacker who helped catch two rapists, and then was jailed for his actions,” THR reports.
The original Rolling Stone article was written by David Kushner in November of 2013 about Deric Lostutter, a hacker who uncovered the rape of a student at a high school involving two football players.
http://www.justjared.com/2014/04/02/brad-pitts-plan-b-acquires-hacker-film-based-on-anonymous-vs-steubenville-article/
I’d believe that, over this rumor.
Julianna Moore tends to stick to indie films these days. I can’t remember the last big budget thing she was in and can’t be bothered to google. Her films, despite the lack of BO, are always memorable.