The actor has kept his promise: less acting work and more as a producer. This is how he presents his closest future in Hollywood, which includes the new Damien Chazelle film.
Before the pandemic brought the industry to a standstill, Brad Pitt enjoyed one of his best seasons in Hollywood: his work in James Gray’s ‘Ad Astra’ and Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Once Upon a Time in … Hollywood’ earned him numerous compliments, and, for the second, also his first Oscar. After three unsuccessful nominations, the actor picked up the statuette for Best Supporting Actor in February 2020, and was able to enter confinement with the satisfaction of being, at 57, in one of the best moments of his career. As soon as he can receive the overwhelming love of his companions as he can swoon half the world interacting with his ex Jennifer Aniston via Zoom. Of course, his is perennial and enduring star material, whether it’s skinning Nazis in “Inglourious Basterds” or holding a hair dryer in “Thelma and Louise.”
More than a year after his victory, we wonder: what will be next for Pitt? We compile everything we know about his future in Hollywood, in which, as he already communicated at the time, he plans to spend less time acting and more time producing.
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‘Babylon’ by Damien Chazelle
After making his mark in Hollywood with the multi-award-winning ‘La La Land: The City of Stars’ and launching into space with Neil Armstrong’s biopic, ‘First Man’, Damien Chazelle is already preparing his next project as a director, starring Brad Pitt. Produced by Paramount Pictures, ‘Babylon’ will be set in the Hollywood of the 20s and seeks to be a portrait of the transition from silent films to talkies. In the story, of which too many details are not yet known, Pitt will play a silent film actor who is having a hard time adapting to the new reality of the industry. According to what has been said, the character is fictional, but is based on John Gilbert, known for his roles in ‘The Great Parade’ and ‘The Demon and the Flesh’.
The film was going to star Emma Stone in the role of iconic actress Clara Bow, but as we learned in December 2020, the actress dropped out of the project. Her replacement w
ill eventually be Margot Robbie, who already worked with Brad Pitt on “Once Upon a Time in … Hollywood.” Two other actors are related to the film: Tobey Maguire, who could play the powerful producer Irving Thalberg, and Li Jun Li, who would play actress Anna May Wong. The premiere date has been set, after several delays caused by the expansion of Covid-19, at Christmas 2022, just in time to participate (if you are lucky) in the Oscars 2023.
‘Bullet Train’ by David Leitch
The director of ‘John Wick’, ‘Deadpool’ and ‘Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw’ has another adrenaline-pumping action adventure for the box office. David Leitch adapts the novel by Kōtarō Isaka, which follows five hitmen who coincide aboard a bullet train, destination Morioka, where they will discover that their respective missions have a lot to do with it. And not in a positive way. Thus a fierce fight is unleashed between professional hitmen. He remembers ‘John Wick’, but now it will not have Keanu Reeves, but Brad Pitt, as the protagonist. And he is dedicated: as the film’s stunt coordinator Greg Rementer recounted in Vulture, “Brad has done 95% of the physical scenes of him, including the fight.” And he added, “He’s like a naturally talented athlete, he really jumped in!”
Joining Pitt is a group of well-known Hollywood faces: Sandra Bullock, Michael Shannon, Joey King, Brian Tyree Henry, Zazie Beetz, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and even singer Bad Bunny.
‘Lost City Of D’, by Aaron and Adam Nee
Although he will only make a cameo, the actor, as The Hollywood Reporter advances, will join Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum in this romantic action comedy about a love novel author who gets stuck on a tour with the cover model of one of his latest books. At the moment, it has not been revealed which character Brad Pitt will play.
He works as a producer
As we pointed out at the beginning, Brad Pitt has made clear his intention to dedicate less and less time to acting and more to producing projects. It is not something new for the actor, who won an Oscar as one of the producers of ’12 Years a Slave ‘(where he also had a small role), and now he continues to bet on different stories.
For example, his closest project, the series ‘The Underground Railroad’, will arrive on May 14 on Amazon Prime Video. Created by Barry Jenkins (Oscar winner for ‘Moonlight’), it follows the incredible discovery of a young African American woman as she tries to escape a life of slavery in the southern United States. Also this year, Andrew Dominik’s ‘Blonde’ will hit theaters, where Ana de Armas plays the iconic Marilyn Monroe. Pitt acts as producer.
In his list of productions we also find a new collaboration as executive producer with the Oscar-winning Lupita Nyong’o, the series ‘Americanah’, based on the acclaimed book by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and that will feature the work, also behind the cameras, scored by Danai Gurira. In the story, we follow two young Nigerian immigrants who face numerous obstacles.
His future projects are completed by a documentary about rock and roll singer Chris Cornell directed by Peter Berg, ‘The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time’ by Steve Kloves about an autistic teenager who uses Sherlock Holmes’ methods to solve a problem. crime, and Rick Famuyiwa’s ‘Black Hole’, a teenage horror film that plays on sexually transmitted diseases as a metaphor. As we can see, an eclectic group of films and series that confirm Brad Pitt’s will to establish himself as a producer, while he continues to magnify his legend as an actor.
