Brad Pitt is set to create a film in view of the New York Times’ scope of Harvey Weinstein, E! News affirms.
The on-screen character’s generation organization, Plan B, as of late collaborated with Annapurna Pictures to buy the rights to the task.
The film will be founded on writers Jodi Kantor and Mean Twohey’s 10-month examination concerning the disfavored film maker’s string of sexual offense claims.
The ladies distributed their discoveries in the New York Times in October 2017 and days after the fact, Hollywood’s greatest names – including any semblance of Rose McGowan and Uma Thurman – stood in opposition to the 66-year-old.
In the wake of starting the #MeToo and Time’s Up developments over the globe, the ladies – alongside kindred columnist Ronan Farrow – were granted a Pulitzer Prize for their history-production scope.
In any case, Pitt likewise has an individual quarrel against Weinstein, as his exes Gwyneth Paltrow and Angelina Jolie were sexually bugged by the previous film big shot.
After news broke, Paltrow was one of the main on-screen characters to approach with her very own allegation against Weinstein. She told the New York Times that when she was 22-years of age, the previous film maker made undesirable lewd gestures towards her.
Pitt was dating the performer at the season of the claimed occurrence in 1995 and a source uncovered to People, “Brad threatened Harvey. He got right in his face, poked him in the chest and said, ‘You will not ever do this to Gwyneth ever again’.”
Angelina Jolie additionally opened up to the New York Times a year ago about Weinstein, as she told the distribution: “I had a bad experience with Harvey Weinstein in my youth, and as a result, chose never to work with him again and warn others when they did.”
A spokesperson for Annapurna Pictures revealed that Pitt’s upcoming film will tell the story behind “the women who led the investigation itself and will not be about or centred around ‘the man’ or the men behind the abuse.”
They emphasised: “It is about how this team of reporters tracked, chased and broke this story.”