Here’s a team the universe clearly wants to see united: Brad Pitt and Darren Aronofsky are aiming to work together on action thriller The Tiger.
Yes, just when you thought those crazy kids might never be able to work it out after Pitt ditched** The Fountain** and they both left The Fighter, they’ve set up a project at Focus Features that would see Pitt taking on a killer cat.
It’ll be based on a forthcoming nonfiction book by John Vaillant, which follows the harsh life on a Siberian plain where human habitation begins to encroach on the stripy creatures’ territory. Ditching the usual “they’re more scared of us than we are of them” attitude, one toothy bastard decides to start hunting down townspeople.
Cue a conversationist game warden putting aside his bleeding-heart love of all things natural to go mano-a-tigro with the beast.
And the pair (Pitt and Aronofsky, not Pitt and the tiger) has roped in another former Pitt collaborator to script: Babel’s Guillermo Arriaga. “This is the first time I have adapted a screenplay, since I have previously only written original screenplays,” he tells Variety. “I chose to adapt this story, first, because I have a profound love for the outdoors and the intense tension between man and nature which the book reflects; and, second, because of the great privilege of working with such accomplished filmmakers.”
Now all we have to do is stop worrying that this is some sneaky revenge by the director for Pitt dropping out of The Fountain, which caused the original, epic version to collapse. Could we get the news that Pitt was left alone with a man-snacking mammal for just a few minutes too long?