Brad Pitt got back to work in an all-black ensemble on Wednesday as he was spotted on the set of his new movie in New Orleans.
The 51-year-old actor wore a weathered black hat, black T-shirt and black jeans on the set of The Big Short.
Brad also sported round brown sunglasses and a grey beard as he returned to work after supporting 39-year-old wife Angelina Jolie through recent preventive surgery.
The Big Short
‘Big Short’ to shoot in New Orleans
“The Big Short” is coming to the Big Easy. Brad Pitt’s big-screen adaptation of New Orleans native Michael Lewis’ best-selling Wall Street expose — set to feature an A-list cast that will reportedly include Pitt, Ryan Gosling, Christian Bale and Steve Carell — has set up offices in town and is eyeing a March start to production.
In keeping with studio practice, Paramount Pictures has yet to publicly announce where the film will shoot or to respond to a request for comment. But the state film office confirmed Wednesday morning (Feb. 11) that it has received an application from the studio for the project.
“This application is under review by my office and we look forward to production starting in a month or so,” said Chris Stelly, the executive director of Louisiana Entertainment.
A handful of local film industry workers confirmed this week that the film is already scouting local shooting locations and hiring crew ahead of the start to principal photography. The pace of local pre-production work is expected to accelerate after the local Carnival season, which culminates on Feb. 17, Fat Tuesday. It’s unclear how long the local shoot will last.
Brad Pitt, Christian Bale and Ryan Gosling to Star in ‘The Big Short’
Following the success of “Moneyball,” Brad Pitt and his Plan B shingle have assembled an all-star cast for the next adaptation of a Michael Lewis bestseller.
Sources tell Variety that Pitt, Christian Bale and Ryan Gosling have come on board to star in “The Big Short,” Paramount and Plan B’s adaptation “The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine,” which Adam McKay is writing and directing.
Lewis’ nonfiction tome tells the story of the build-up of the housing and credit bubble during the 2000s that led to the financial crisis of 2007-2010. Paramount had no comment.
Pitt will produce with DeDe Gardner through their Plan B banner. Production start date is unknown.
The book follows several key people who played a role in creating the disastrous credit bubble. The feature adaptation will likely feature several A-list actors who have similiar-sized roles, similar to the cast of “Traffic” or “The Counselor.”
As with “Moneyball,” Pitt has been very passionate about getting this adaptation onto the bigscreen.
Plan B: The Big Short
Brad Pitt continues to indulge his bromance with hotshot financial journalist Michael Lewis. The actor has already agreed to star in a big-screen adaptation of Lewis’s 2003 best seller, Moneyball, at Columbia Pictures. Now Vulture has learned that Pitt, who is producing an adaptation of The Big Short, Lewis’s explication of America’s 2008 financial meltdown, is moving quickly to get his most recent best seller made: Insiders tell Vulture that Paramount and Pitt’s company, Plan B, are imminently hiring screenwriter Charles Randolph (The Interpreter) for a cool three-quarters of a million dollars to adapt the Lewis book.
