Brad Pitt Eying Steven Knight-Scripted WWII Tale

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Brad Pitt Eying Steven Knight-Scripted WWII Tale

Brad Pitt keeps to his grind with a new untitled WWII romantic thriller which Steven Knight has scripted for Graham King‘s GK Films.

CelebNMusic247.com has learned via Deadline that Pitt looking for a deal for the untitled script. So far, it’s not a done deal yet and not yet set with a distributor. However, Deadline is reporting that it’s a big deal for Brad Pitt to get this movie off the ground. Word is that the film will have a big director attached 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.

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