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  • Netflix teams with Plan B to produce movie starring Brad Pitt

    Netflix teams with Plan B to produce movie starring Brad Pitt

    MUMBAI: Netflix has teamed up with Brad Pitt’s company Plan B to produce an original film War Machine starring Pitt.

     

    The provocative satirical comedy from David Michôd will be exclusively available to members of Netflix globally and in select theaters next year.

     

    Produced by Netflix and Pitt alongside his Plan B partners Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner, and producer Ian Bryce, War Machine brings together Pitt with Michôd, the acclaimed Australian writer and director. Principal photography is scheduled to start in August.

     

    Inspired by the best-selling book The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America’s War in Afghanistan by the late Michael Hastings, War Machineconcerns a four star, “rock star” general whose lethal reputation and impeccable track record vaults him to command the American war in Afghanistan.

     

    “War Machine is a rip-roaring, behind-the-facade tale of modern war decision-makers, from the corridors of power to the distant regions of America’s ambitions. Brad and David are a perfect team to make this timely, compelling and entertaining film,” said Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos.

     

    “We are so excited to be a part of the inspiring commitment by Netflix to produce cutting-edge content and to deliver it to a global audience,” added Pitt.

     

    Michôd said, “I’m humbled to be making a big, bold movie about the whole sprawling, complex, cumbersome and crazy machinery of modern war and the many lives it touches.”   

  • Pitt, Bale and Gosling to star in ‘The Big Short’

    Pitt, Bale and Gosling to star in ‘The Big Short’

    MUMBAI: Bradd Pitt, Chistian Bale and Ryan Gosling have signed the dotted lines for The Big Short, which is being written and directed by Adam McKay. 

     

    The film, which is going to be produced by Brad Pitt’s production company, Plan B, will be an adaptation of a bestselling book written by acclaimed journalist, Michael Lewis.

     

    The Big Short will deal with the housing and credit bubble disaster that led to the global financial crisis in 2007. The film is likely to be structured as an ensemble effort featuring several characters who had a role in creating the credit crisis.

     

    The Big Short will also be jointly produced by Paramount Pictures and Plan B.

     

    Bradd Pitt founded Plan B in 2002 along with ex-wife Jennifer Aniston, who left the company in 2006 after the couple split. The leading production company has grown over the years from strength to strength, tackling weighty subjects including 2014’s best picture Oscar 12 Years a Slave, and civil rights drama Selma, which received multiple Golden Globes nominations.