No, he’s not auditioning to play a billy goat. Instead, perhaps Brad Pitt has been sporting his long, scraggly beard to get into character for a new movie role: that of British explorer Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett, who disappeared in the Amazon in 1925.
But there are a couple of modern-day mysteries surrounding the story, too. First, a Paramount source says the film, called The Lost City of Z, doesn’t have a script yet and no date to start production has been set. In addition, Fawcett didn’t have a beard, but a handlebar moustache.
“There is no film-related explanation I can give you as to why [Pitt] has the beard,” the Paramount source tells PEOPLE.
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Nominees List of 2010 PGA Awards Unveiled
James Cameron’s sci-fi blockbuster “Avatar” will compete against Quentin Tarantino’s “Inglourious Basterds” and award season favourites “The Hurt Locker” and “Up in the Air” for the Producers Guild of America’s top movie prize.
Clint Eastwood’s “Invictus”, “Precious: Based on the Novel PUSH by Sapphire” and animated film “Up” were also among the 10 movies – instead of the usual five – included on the PGA shortlist for its Darryl F. Zanuck Producer of the Year Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures. “Up” is also nominated in the best animated film category, alongside “Coraline”, “The Princess and the Frog”, “9” and “The Fantastic Mr. Fox”.
Meanwhile, Drew Barrymore and Jessica Lange’s Grey Gardens scored a mention for best TV movie – it will battle with “Prayers for Bobby”, “The Prisoner”, “Taking Chance”, Georgia O’Keefe and “Little Dorrit” for the accolade.
The nominations were announced on Tuesday (05Jan10) and the winners of the 21st Annual PGA Awards will be unveiled on 24 January (10) at a ceremony in Hollywood.
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Malick’s ‘Tree of Life’ Prepping For Summer/Fall Release, Cannes Premiere
Terrence Malick’s epic The Tree of Life has been (and still is) a long time coming, as most all Malick films are. Luckily, this one appears to finally be poking its head above post-producive waters, courtesy of distributor Apparition, which seems intent on keeping the indie art film alive all by itself (they distributed films like Bright Star and The Young Victoria last year. Hell even Boondock Saints II), with Tree of Life and Kristen Stewart-led The Runaways next year.
In this article, Apparition’s leader Bob Berney gets excited about Malick’s new undertaking and a possible Cannes premiere: “There’s also no hiding Berney’s enthusiasm when he speaks about Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life, due in the fall of 2010. Noting that the filmmaker, in spite of having directed only a handful of features, is a cult figure who has been a favorite at Cannes (Malick was named the fest’s Best Director in 1979 for Days of Heaven), Berney is eyeing a Cannes slot to premiere the much-anticipated Brad Pitt/Sean Penn starrer.”
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