Brad Pitt will be starring in another soldier role in a new film entitled “The Lost City of Z.” The actor is also set to produce the Paramount book-based film.

The film is based on the non-fiction book by David Grann, which will be published in April by Doubleday. Pitt will produce the film through his Plan B production company.

He will be playing Percy Fawcett, a British soldier and spy who became obsessed by the idea of an advanced civilization in the depths of the Amazonian jungle he called Z. Fawcett, along with his son, headed into the jungle in 1925 in search of the mysterious Z and was never seen again.

James Gray, who will direct the film, told Variety, “This is a terrific opportunity to do something entirely different for me. It is a story that will be told with an epic scale, with a main character who is larger than life.”

Pitt is also filming “Inglorious Bastards,” where he will be playing an illiterate hillbilly who puts together a team of Jewish-American soldiers. He will next be seen in “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” on Christmas Day.

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