Weinstein Co. Back in Brad Pitt Business with ‘Cogan’s Trade’
Jut last week we brought you the news that Sam Rockwell had come aboard Cogan’s Trade, which is set to star Brad Pitt, Casey Affleck, Javier Bardem, and Mark Ruffalo, and this week, Deadline is reporting that The Weinstein Company has acquired distribution rights for the film.
Cogan’s Trade, which is being adapted from the George V. Higgins novel, has my Excite-O-Meter peaking at “Oh hells yeah”, given the top-notch cast and a director, Andrew Dominik, whose last two movies, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and Chopper, proved that the man has some serious skills, to say the least. There’s also the film’s plot, which centers on Pitt as Jackie Cogan, a mod enforcer investigating a heist that went down during a mafia-sponsored high-stakes card game. In addition to directing, Dominik also penned the screenplay.
Production beings in February, for a release sometime in the first quarter of 2012.
Did Bob and Harvey Weinstein make a good move getting back into the Brad Pitt business for the first time since Inglourious Basterds?
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