Brad shoots for JESSE JAMES

By: Patrick Sauriol
Date: Tuesday, January 25, 2005
Source: Variety

Brad Pitt will play the legendary bad boy of the old west, gunslinger Jesse James, in a movie based on the life and death of the outlaw. CHOPPER director Andrew Dominik will direct the movie and the screenplay will be adapted from the Ron Hansen novel THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD.

The book was optioned last year by Plan B Films, the production company owned by Pitt, Brad Grey and Jennifer Aniston, and by Scott Free brothers Ridley and Tony Scott. According to Variety, just Plan B will now make the film.

Hansen's tale will focus on the events of Jesse James leading up to his death by shooting by Robert Ford. In the years following Ford's murder of James, the gang member (who once idolized James) was wracked with guilt about killing the western icon.


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