Paramount has bought the rights to a new manuscript entitled 'Lost City of Z' and Brad Pitt is set to produce and star in the film.
The David Grann manuscript is based on the real-life search for a lost city in the Amazon and Pitt is set to produce the film through his production company Plan B.
According to Empire, Pitt will play the lead role of Col Percy Harrison Fawcett, the explorer who disappeared in 1925 while searching for the mysterious city.
Over the next 70 years, many explorers tried and failed to retrace Fawcett's path, including a 1996 expedition of Brazilian adventurers.
