Pitt & Paramount Search for Lost CITY

By: Jarrod Sarafin
Date: Tuesday, April 01, 2008

Paramount Pictures has preemptively bought Lost City of Z, a David Grann manuscript based on a September 2005 article in the New Yorker. The trade says that Brad Pitt is producing the feature through his Plan B shingle. He also has the Coen brothers' Burn After Reading hitting theaters in September and David Fincher's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which Par will open in December. Another film with him set as a producer is the Rachel McAdams and Eric Bana vehicle The Time Traveler's Wife, which will debut in November.

Plot Concept: Grann's forthcoming nonfiction book concerns British explorer Col. Percy Harrison Fawcett, who was attempting to find the so-called City of Z when he and his party disappeared in 1925. Over the next 70 years, scores of explorers tried and failed to retrace Fawcett's path, including a 1996 expedition of Brazilian adventurers. Pitt would play Fawcett.