It seems as though Brad Pitt is becoming the unofficial spokesperson for the Alberta film industry.
Sources have told the Calgary Sun newspaper that "there's a good sense (in the local film industry)" that Brad Pitt and Billy Bob Thornton are set to team up to film Peace Like A River in Alberta.
Pitt will be donning his producer's hat as his production company, Plan B, will oversee the film. Thornton (Sling Blade, Armageddon) will star in the drama.
The article also reports that location managers have already visited the Calgary area to scout filming locations.
The film is based on Leif Enger's best-selling book and follows a Minnesota father raising his three children in the 1960s. Incorporated with nods to biblical tales, Huckleberry Finn, adventure stories of Robert Louis Stevenson, and the Westerns of Zane Grey, the story is told from the point of view of an eleven-year-old asthmatic boy named Reuben who is obsessed with cowboy stories. Reuben regales readers with the Land family's cross-country quest for Reuben's outlaw older brother, Davy, who has been controversially charged with murder after killing two neighbourhood marauders.
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