Brad Pitt ventures to the "Lost City"

Paramount Pictures has taken the bold move to search for a lost city with one Mr. Brad Pitt! "We Own the Night" helmer James Gray is set to direct "The Lost City of Z" according to reports in Variety. Gray will take his lead from an as yet unpublished David Grann book for Brad Pitt to star in as British soldier and spy, Percy Fawcett.
The nonfiction book by Grann, a staffer at the New Yorker, will be published in April by Doubleday. Paramount acquired the rights to it earlier this year for Pitt to produce through his Paramount-based Plan B.

Fawcett left Victorian society to explore in the Amazon, and he became obsessed by the idea of an advanced civilization he called 'Z', which he believed existed in the depths of the jungle. Along with his son, Fawcett headed into the jungle in 1925 in search of Z and was never seen again.
"This is a terrific opportunity to do something entirely different for me," Gray said. "It is a story that will be told with an epic scale, with a main character who is larger than life."