Here is some good news to kick off the day with. Animal Kingdom Director David Michôd has found his next project, with Brad Pitt to both produce and star in, titled The Operators.
The film will be adapted by Michôd from the non-fiction book of the same name by Michael Hastings. It follows the time that General Stanley McChrystal spent as the commanding general of United States and international forces in Afghanistan and the backroom politics that drove the war. No production date is set yet but Pitt and Michôd both have vacant schedules towards the end of the year, so hopefully we will hear more then. Nonetheless any project with these two attached will get my attention, and hopefully it will go into production sooner rather than later.
I’ve always admired Pitt’s desire to use his star power to work with independent filmmakers on riskier projects like Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu on Babel, Steve McQueen on 12 Years a Slave and Andrew Dominik on The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and Killing Them Softly. Pitt has been making smart choices with the projects he attaches himself these past few years(sans The Counselor, I can’t bring myself to jump on its bandwagon), and I don’t expect his streak to stop here.
Animal Kingdom was one of my favorite films of 2010, and has remained one of my favorite films of the decade since. As soon as the slow-motion shot of two brothers of a crime family wrestling like lions was on screen, I knew Michôd was a director to watch and get excited about. And June 13th will finally see his followup to Animal Kingdom with The Rover starring Guy Pearce and Robert Pattinson, a film that is among my most anticipated of the year.
Source: Deadline
2 thoughts on “David Michôd and Brad Pitt to Team Up for “The Operators””
You need to get on The Counselor bandwagon.
I want to. I want to like that film so badly. Give me some time to distance myself from it, I’ll probably be praising it in a few years.