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Norton, Pitt Together Again
The Fight Club guys are going another round.
Edward Norton and Brad Pitt will reunite to star in State of Play, a political thriller based on the BBC miniseries of the same name, Variety reports. It will be the actors' first joint screen time since their noted 1999 action-drama.
In Play, Norton will tackle the role of a scandalized congressman whose ascent to the upper echelon of Washington's power brokers is threatened by a police investigation into the mysterious murder of his mistress.
Complications, of course, ensue when a political reporter, played by Pitt, is assigned to probe the woman's death and becomes romantically involved with the politico's estranged wife.
The movie, something of a cross between No Way Out and All the President's Men, is being directed by Kevin Macdonald, a British TV helmer who made his mark in Hollywood guiding Forrest Whitaker to a Best Actor Oscar last year in The Last King of Scotland.
Matthew Michael Carnahan, brother of Narc director Joe Carnahan, wrote the script after Universal Pictures won the bidding war for the rights to the original six-hour U.K. telefilm written by Paul Abbot.
The last time Norton and Pitt got together on the big screen, they were taking out their male aggression as two halves of the same messed up dude in David Fincher's Fight Club, based on the Chuck Palahniuk novel.
While that mindbender of a movie received positive reviews from critics, it was hardly a knockout at the box office. Despite a budget of $63 million, Fight Club's domestic haul topped out around $37 million, but it made up for it in foreign ticket sales, eventually raking in $100 million worldwide.
Norton, 38, most recently starred as a magician in last year's romantic drama, The Illusionist, and a doctor in The Painted Veil, adapted from the Somerset Maugham book.
Pitt, 43, won acclaim as an American tourist in crisis in last year's Babel, and was named Best Actor last weekend at the Venice Film Festival for The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, in which he plays the infamous gunslinger.
Shooting on State of Play is slated to start in November, as soon as Norton wraps production on Universal and Marvel Studio's The Incredible Hulk. The superhero movie is due out next June.
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