Paramount, Brad Pitt find 'Lost City'

[Rezzo]

Originally Posted by Variety

Paramount, Brad Pitt find 'Lost City'
Plan B to produce David Grann's manuscript

Paramount Pictures has preemptively bought "Lost City of Z," a David Grann manuscript about the search for a lost city in the Amazon, with Brad Pitt to produce the feature adaptation through his Plan B shingle as a potential starring vehicle.

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.

Doubleday is scheduled to publish "Lost City of Z," an expansion of Grann's September 2005 article in the New Yorker, in February.

When Pitt expressed interest in toplining 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, whose Plan B is based at Paramount, has a longstanding relationship with the studio and Par chief Brad Grey, a former partner in Plan B. As an actor, Pitt 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.

I like the sound of it.

[Gotham]

That doesn't sound too bad. I'd love to see that film.

[tzarinna]

Could be cool.

[fu manchu]

Pitt in a British accent......

[turtlefocker]

april fools

[Gotham]

Originally Posted by turtlefocker

april fools

I don't believe that it's a joke.

[Hunter Rider]

I love this type of movie.

[Ratcrawler]

Hopefully Tarzan shows up.

[Hunter Rider]

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=51208

James Gray, Brad Pitt Search for Lost City
Source: Variety
December 10, 2008


Paramount has set We Own the Night helmer James Gray to direct The Lost City of Z, reports Variety. Gray will adapt the David Grann book for Brad Pitt to star in as British soldier and spy Percy Fawcett.

The nonfiction book by Grann, a staffer at the New Yorker, will be published in April by Doubleday. Paramount acquired it earlier this year for Pitt to produce through his Paramount-based Plan B.

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.

"This is a terrific opportunity to do something entirely different for me," Gray said. "It is a story that will be told with an epic scale, with a main character who is larger than life."

[Gotham]

I'm even more excited.

[chamber-music]

I hope Pitt is that one in a handful of American actors who don't butcher the accent.

[The Englishman]

Originally Posted by chamber-music

I hope Pitt is that one in a handful of American actors who don't butcher the accent.

Has he ever done an English accent before???

[chamber-music]

Originally Posted by The Englishman

Has he ever done an English accent before???

Not that I can remember