James Gray to direct Brad Pitt

Posted on December 11, 2008
Filed Under Actors, Adaptation, Directors

Ladies and gentlemen, today is Brad Pitt day here at Moviemind. Yeah I know, you can thank me later. I’m forced by contract to write about Pitt at least once every week. Nah, just kidding! Anyway, Variety reports that Paramount has set James Gray to direct “The Lost City of Z.” James will adapt the nonfiction David Grann book (acquired earlier this year by Paramount) for Brad Pitt to star in as British soldier and spy Percy Fawcett.

Percy 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.”

I’m pretty sure I will upset some die hard Pitt lovers now but when it comes to his acting, I believe he peeked in “True Romance” (1993) when he played the pothead “Floyd”. Brilliant performance. Still today I haven’t seen a better (or funnier) portrait of a stoner.

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