Brad Pitt and Darren Aronofsky Developing THE TIGER with Guillermo Arriaga
Director Darren Aronofsky (The Wrester) has been quietly developing a new film for the last year with Brad Pitt called The Tiger. The film will be a potential starring vehicle for Pitt and a potential directing gig for Aronofsky. Neither one of the are officially committed to it yet though. If things work out with the studio and everything can be worked out with scheduling and money then they will officially attach themselves to the film. They obviously want to do it because they've been working on it for about a year already. Also joining the team is Guilleromo Arriaga the writer behind Babel and Amores Perros.
The Tiger is based on a upcoming nonfiction book by John Vaillant and it enters on an animal activist who must protect the small Siberian town he is in when a tiger begins attacking its inhabitants. It sounds a lot like the film The Ghost in the Darkness, which is also based on a true story. That was such a good film! You should watch it if you haven't already.
I'm definitely excited to see Pitt and Aronofsky work together on a film. I bet they could really work some great movie magic.
Here is the official description of what The Tiger is about:
The hunt for a man-eating tiger across the forbidding landscape of Russia’s Far East.
When Yuri Trush was called in to investigate an attack by a Siberian tiger, what he found was unlike anything he’d ever encountered. Nothing remained of the victim but stumps of bone protruding from his boots. Even more chilling was the evidence that this attack had been carefully orchestrated, as if the tiger was seeking revenge. Before long, the beast struck again, and Trush, leader of a tiger conservation unit, found himself forced to hunt this animal through the brutal cold of a Siberian winter, becoming intimately acquainted with the tiger’s history, motives, and unique method of attack—until their harrowing final encounter.
John Vaillant recreates these astonishing events against the backdrop of Russia’s most remote frontier, a place where the native peoples worship tigers but poachers threaten the species’ survival. He describes the historic collisions between Chinese and Russian settlers (trappers, thieves, deserters, and exiles), and the struggles of their descendants, who, in the chaotic aftermath of perestroika, turn to poaching to survive—in this case with deadly consequences.
A haunting, gripping exploration of predators and prey, and an intimate portrait of a remarkable animal increasingly threatened by interaction with humans.