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Brad Pitt Talks to Director RaMell Ross About How His Basketball Career Unexpectedly Influenced ‘Nickel Boys’

Read an excerpt of the pair’s conversation below and watch the full video, an IndieWire exclusive, right here.

Brad Pitt: Thanks so much, man, for taking time out to talk about “Nickel Boys.

RaMell Ross: Pleasure is mine, man. Pleasure is mine.

I haven’t seen anything like it. It’s so original. And I have some questions.

I’d love to field them. I’d love to field them.

Well, first starting with “The Nickel Boys,” it’s based on Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book of the same name. Tell me about the pressure, the responsibility, the joy of interpreting this, what you co-wrote with Joslyn Barnes.

Yeah, it’s a lot of pressure, but I think the real pressure, honestly, was not messing it up to the point where this opportunity wouldn’t be afforded to others. I think it’s pretty unprecedented that companies like yours, and this isn’t a promo for Plan B, but you guys support some pretty wild ideas, like how do you make a film that is so reflexive, but also in conversation with Black visuality and also supporting Colson’s narrative and elevating the Dozier School boys to the annals of film? These are big ideas. So the pressure was, I think, to satisfy the concept, to give life.

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Brad Pitt To Star In & Produce ‘Heart Of The Beast’

Brad Pitt has found his next star vehicle in Heart of the Beast, David Ayer‘s action adventure film for Paramount Pictures, on which we were first to report last March. Pill will also produce for his Plan B Entertainment.

Written by Cameron Alexander, who will executive produce, Heart of the Beast centers on a former Army Special Forces soldier and his retired combat dog who battle for survival after a plane crash deep in the unforgiving Alaskan wilderness.

Damien Chazelle and Olivia Hamilton will also produce under their Wild Chickens Productions banner, as part of their first-look deal with the studio. Ayer also produces under his Crave Films banner, along with Temple Hill Entertainment. Richard Raymond is co-producing.

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‘Adolescence’: First Look At Netflix’s Stephen Graham Crime Drama

The four-part series — from Graham and his regular collaborators Jack Thorne Philip Barantini — is notable for each episode being shot in one continuous take as the action unfolds in real time. It’s due to launch on Netflix next year and counts Brad Pitt among its exec producers.

Adolescence will mark a first role for Owen Cooper, who plays a 13-year-old teenage boy who is arrested for the murder of a girl at his school. Graham (Boiling Point) plays his father and ‘appropriate’ adult, while Walters (Top Boy) plays a detective inspector and Soherty (The Crown) a clinical psychologist assigned to the case.

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Emmy’s Nominee

The Emmys have officially announced the nominated producers for the drama, comedy, and limited series categories, revealing some exciting surprises that many viewers — and even industry professionals — might not have anticipated.

D.B. Weiss and David Benioff, best known as the minds behind “Game of Thrones,” earned their second drama series bids for the Netflix sci-fi adaptation “3 Body Problem.” Among the other 21 nominated producers for this series is “Knives Out” director Rian Johnson, who received his first nom after previously being snubbed for his directing work on “Breaking Bad” and “Poker Face.” The “3 Body Problem” producing team also includes actress Rosamund Pike as an executive producer, alongside Plan B heads Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner.

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‘Outer Range’ Canceled at Amazon After 2 Seasons

“Outer Range,” the sci-fi and mystery series led by Josh Brolin, has been canceled by Amazon Studios after two seasons and will not return for a third on Prime Video, an individual with knowledge of the decision told IndieWire.

Brian Watkins created the series that was executive produced by Charles Murray, Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Ernest McNealey, Josh Brolin, Tony Krantz, Heather Rae, and Jon Paré.

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