According to Deadline, Brad Pitt and David Ayer will work together again in ‘Heart of the Beast’, more than ten years after having done so for the first time in ‘Steel Hearts’, which is still today the best film of the American filmmaker.
The film, written by Cameron Alexander, focuses on a former Army Special Forces soldier and his retired combat dog who fight to survive, after a plane crash, deep in the unforgiving wilderness of Alaska.
In addition to starring and directing, Pitt and Ayer will also produce it through Plan B and Crave Films, respectively, along with Olivia Hamilton and director Damien Chazelle, with whom Pitt already collaborated on ‘Babylon’, and who will back it through their Wild Chickens Productions.
Co-produced by Temple Hill Entertainment, ‘Heart of the Beast’ will be filmed in 2025 and will be distributed worldwide by Paramount Pictures, the producer and distributor of the film adaptation of ‘Children of Blood and Bone’, the fantasy novel written by Tomi Adeyemi that we learned this week will star Thuso Mbedu, Amandla Stenberg, Damson Idris, Tosin Cole, Viola Davis, Cynthia Erivo, Idris Elba, Lashana Lynch, Chiwetel Ejiofor or Regina King, among others.
We have recently seen Pitt in ‘Wolfs’, one of the most successful films on Apple TV+, and he has another Apple production pending release, ‘F1’, the ambitious film about Formula 1 directed by Joseph Kosinski that will be released in theaters around the world on June 27 by Warner Bros. Pictures.
Ayer, meanwhile, is awaiting the release of ‘A Working Man’, a film from Amazon MGM Studios that reunites him with Jason Statham after the commercial success of ‘Beekeeper: The Protector’ last year. The film will be released in US cinemas on 28 March, although we do not yet know whether it will also be released in theatres in Spain, or whether it will be released directly on Prime Video.
