Saturday, November 22, 2008

Brad Pitt is taking on the cops

First Angelina Jolie played Christine Collins and took on an entire corrupt police force in Changeling. Now Brad Pitt and Plan B are gearing up to take on a fake cop.

Brad and Plan B are working with a team of writers to develop a biopic based on the true story of Linda Trest, a journalist in Missouri who exposed a phony cop who was supposedly cleaning up a small town’s drug problems - except that he was no longer a member of law enforcement by then.

The story sounds like it could be interesting - there’s always something fun about watching a regular parson beat the system!

It’s still very much in pre-production so at the moment there’s certainly no word on casting. For some reason I immediately pictured Julia Roberts but it might be a little too much like Erin Brokovich in that case. Time will tell!