Brad Pitt is not only producing but is reportedly taking on a role in "Hunger" and "Shame" director Steve McQueen's third feature "Twelve Years A Slave" for both River Road and Pitt's Plan B production company. Set in the mid-19th century, the film tells the true story of New Yorker Solomon Northrup (Chiwetel Ejiofor) who was kidnapped and shipped … [Read more...]
McQueen, Pitt, Ejiofor Adapt “12 Years a Slave”
August 16, 2011 by
"Hunger" director Steve McQueen is teaming with Brad Pitt and Chiwetel Ejiofor in an adaptation of Solomon Northup's 1853 autobiography "Twelve Years a Slave" says The Hollywood Reporter. Northup was a married and educated free black man living in New York when two men approached him with a job offer in Washington. When he showed up in D.C., he … [Read more...]
