It’s taken seven years, but Sound of Metal director Daris Marder finally has another film in the works. He’s going even bigger this time, and it starts with the casting of Brad Pitt. According to Deadline, Pitt will star in Connector, which Marder will direct and co-write with his sister, Nina.
The film is on the fast track thanks to Pitt’s commitment to the project, which reunites him with Apple Original Films, home to his F1: The Movie and Wolfs. Pitt and Marder are also aboard as producers. Derek Cianfrance came up with the story, having also done so for Sound of Metal.
According to the report, Connector “is set in 1970s New York and centers on a working-class legend: a skywalking ironworker who takes on forces larger than himself.”
The plan is for this to be the next thing Pitt shoots early next year. He’s coming off the quiet success of David Ayer’s Heart of the Beast, which just keeps hanging around in theaters. He’ll be seen next in The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth later this month, followed by Edward Berger’s The Riders.
