Wednesday
10Dec2008
Brad Pitt's 'Lost City of Z' Adds 'We Own the Night' Director
Wednesday, December 10, 2008 at 1:18PM
We had already heard much of this news, but now there's
a director in place for the new
Brad Pitt vehicle called
The Lost City of Z, which Pitt will also
produce through his Plan B shingle.
The book being turned into the movie is by David Grann, who chronicled the fateful journey by British soldier and spy Percy Fawcett into the Brazilian jungles in the 1920s. He was looking for a lost civilization with his son, but they were never seen again.
"This is a terrific opportunity to do something entirely different for me," said Gray, recognizing his wonderful opportunity. "It is a story that will be told with an epic scale, with a main character who is larger than life."
In fact, Fawcett is believed to be the inspiration (or an inspiration) for the Indiana Jones character, whose own adventures began on screen, if you'll remember, in South America.
I'm reminded again of my childhood here, so would someone explain to me why we've never come close to a movie adaptation of Pitfall, the classic Activision game on Atari?
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