According to DeadlineHollywoodDaily.com, the director, 45, is in talks with Pitt, 44, to star in his next film, the World War II action tale Inglorious Bastards.

It centers on a Dirty Dozen-like group of soldiers behind enemy lines.

Shooting on Inglorious Bastards begins in October.

Brad is to produce a new action-adventure movie about the hunt for a lost city in the Amazon.

The David Grann manuscript is based on the real-life search for a lost city in the Amazon and Pitt is set to produce the film through his production company Plan B.

According to Empire, Pitt will play the lead role of Col Percy Harrison Fawcett, the explorer who disappeared in 1925 while searching for the mysterious city.

The book, based on Grann’s September 2005 article in the New Yorker, will be published next February.

Brad Pitt sports a cute new hair cut as he leaves from the set of the current movie “Tree Of Life” he is working on in Texas. He was spotted talking to a few crew members in front of his Harley Davidson motorbike.

After weeks of rumors and speculation, the location manager of “Tree of Life,” the Terrence Malick project starring Brad Pitt and Sean Penn, addressed the Smithville City Council on Tuesday to talk about filming there, beginning in late March. The shoot will last approximately three months, the film’s John Patterson said.

“Security is going to be a big issue” with the film company, said Smithville City Manager Tex Middlebrook, who added that producers have met with the Police Department several times. Many of the cast and crew members for the film, a 1950s period piece, have rented houses in Smithville, a town of about 4,000 people 45 miles east of Austin.

source: statesman.com

Brad Pitt is in talks to climb into “Tree of Life,” a drama Terrence Malick wrote and will direct.

River Road is financing, and Bill Pohlad is producing with Sarah Green (”The New World”) and Grant Hill.

Pitt, who recently ankled the Universal Pictures drama “State of Play,” would replace Heath Ledger, who was skedded to star with Sean Penn in the Malick-directed drama, which begins production in the spring. Though Penn is booked to play the title character in the Gus Van Sant-directed “Milk,” he’s still expected to play a supporting role in “Tree of Life.” Penn has an allegiance to River Road’s Pohlad, who co-financed with Paramount Vantage the Penn-directed “Into the Wild.”No deals have been made with Pitt or Penn. Pitt would have earned $20 million against gross to star in “State of Play,” but he’ll likely sign on to “Tree of Life” for nearly no upfront money.