Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard film in the UK
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Brad Pitt has frequently been somewhat of an Anglophile when it comes to film locations, and now he is heading back to the UK for his next project.
The as-yet-untitled feature comes from the pen of Steven Knight (Taboo, Burnt, Locke) and is set against the backdrop of World War Two. Pitt plays an Allied counter-intelligence agent who falls in love with his French counterpart, played by Marion Cotillard, while on a dangerous mission to Casablanca to assassinate a German ambassador.
Robert Zemeckis directs the period piece for GK Films; Graham King is among the producers. The feature is currently in pre-production here in the UK; on Production Intelligence you will find the production manager and production co-ordinator.
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Pitt has been in the UK for the last couple of months for his starring role in War Machine, a major Netflix film we first detailed on PI in July; log in for details including location manager and production co-ordinator. As a producer, he has also recently been involved in UK-based projects such as The Lost City of Z, recently filming in Belfast.
Cotillard was also in the UK at the start of 2015 for a two month shoot on Macbeth, co-starring Michael Fassbender, which filmed in Scotland, Surrey, Northumberland and Cambridgeshire. She is currently busy shooting Assassin's Creed, which we first detailed on PI as a UK-based project back in May. Â
Photo via Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images Ent.
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