We haven’t yet seen him in The New Misadventures of Cliff Booth, but Brad Pitt isn’t sitting idle: Deadline reveals exclusively that the actor will star in Connector, a new film from the writer who a few years ago brought us the intriguing Sound of Metal. The project, as often happens when Pitt is cast, is coproduced by his Plan B, which, to be fair, also engages on other people’s projects, but automatically takes the lead when Brad acts, in an acting as well as authorial process. What do we know about this Connector?
Brad Pitt is a steelworker in Connector by Darius Marder
Connector will be set in the 1970s New York, following a master blacksmith specializing in high-rise urban construction sites, a man who “will face forces larger than himself“. While awaiting further details about the story, we know that Plan B is producing this for Apple Studios, with whom Brad Pitt has now a consolidated relationship, after Wolfs and, above all, the impressive box-office performance of F1 – The Movie. Following a 2026 that saw him starring in Heart of the Beast by David Ayer and soon in The New Misadventures of Cliff Booth, in theaters from November 26, Pitt could shoot Connector in 2027. The film will be directed by Darius Marder and written by him alongside his sister Nina Marder: this writer had been in the spotlight in 2019 for his feature debut, with that Sound of Metal which earned six deserved Oscar nominations (winning statuettes for editing and sound), showcasing a strong cinematic sensibility in depicting a man (Riz Ahmed) who progressively loses his hearing.
The collaboration between Plan B and Apple Studios will continue with The Waffle House Index starring Inde Navarrette (Obsession), as well as an as-yet-untitled film from Stephen Chbosky, in which Mark Wahlberg will appear.
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