Brad Pitt and Darren Aronofsky are teaming up in the wild as the thesp and director have set up the adventure thriller The Tiger at Focus Features and have tapped Guillermo Arriaga to pen the script. The project, which is based on an upcoming nonfiction book by John Vaillant, takes place on the Siberian plain, where human development is encroaching on the tigers’ habitat — and one tiger turns on the intruders. With townspeople being tracked and hunted with an almost supernatural power, a conservationist game warden must face down the tiger. It is a fight that only one of them can win. I’m not sure how relevant this is for BD, but we’ll try and find out a bit more. Vaillant’s “The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival” will be published by Knopf in August.
