Nary a day seems to go by lately without some Brad Pitt movie news — never mind Brad Pitt non-movie news — and today is no different.
Pitt and his Plan B production company will produce Twelve Years a Slave, based on Solomon Northup’s autobiography of the same name … written in 1853.
More importantly, it was announced around the same time that Steve McQueen — the British filmmaker/artist behind Hunger, not the onetime American action-movie icon who passed away over 30 years ago — would be directing.
In addition, Chiwetel Ejiofor (Inside Man) has already signed up for Twelve Years a Slave, the harrowing/educational true story of Northup and his time as a slave in 1850s Washington, D.C., as well as his eventual freedom.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
