Brad Pitt is negotiating for the lead in New Regency’s “The Gray Man,” a script from last year’s blacklist by Adam Cozad that will have Pitt playing an assassin for the first time since “Mr. and Mrs. Smith.”
James Gray will direct “Gray Man,” a character piece adaptation from Mark Greaney’s debut thriller. Pitt would play the world’s greatest assassin, burned and on the run from his last job-gone-bad.

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Robert Duvall has revealed he will only appear in a film about two famous feuding American families if Brad Pitt does.

The 79-year-old star of Get Low has revealed Eric Roth has written an excellent script about the Hatfield/McCoy feud and Crazy Heart director Scott Cooper has met with Brad about making the film for Warner Bros.

Robert said he will be on board the project “if Brad Pitt will say yes”.

The dedicated acting veteran revealed: “I don’t work as much as I want. My career is still going great, maybe as good as ever.”

But Brad has recently shaved off his Hatfield and McCoy style beard, which he claimed he had grown out of boredom, to begin filming new baseball move Moneyball.

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