FIRST LOOK: David Ayer's WWII Tank Drama FURY Starring Brad Pitt

Brad Pitt Could Return To Killing Nazis In WWII Action Flick FURY

Deadline reports that Brad Pitt is currently in talks to join the WWII era action film Fury written and directed by David Ayer (End of Watch, Ten). Ayer is likely best known for last year's End of Watch which he wrote and directed. He also wrote the screenplay for Training Day which earned Denzel Washington his Best Supporting Actor Oscar. Pitt would play one of the five men crew of an American tank named Fury during the last days of the German regime in 1945.

Tarantino's KILLER CROW To Focus On Black WWII Soldiers' Warpath To Switzerland

While Quentin Tarantino is relishing in the current commercial and critical success of both Inglorious Basterds and the newly released Django Unchained. There had been talk of these films being apart of an unofficial trilogy. It had been thought that Christoph Waltz would be the key factor in all three films. The third film has been given a working title by Quentin according to an interview with TheRoot (via ThePlaylist). Tarantino envisions Killer Crow as a film that could include a lot of excluded material from Inglorious Basterds. There had been a sub-plot that included black soldiers that didn't end up making the film. Talk of a Basterds-prequel also hinted to this story of black WWII soldiers story being explored. He confirms that half a the Killer Crow script is already finished. While this sounds promising, recent talk from Tarantino suggests his 30's era gangster film could be closer to production.

"There's something about this that would suggest a trilogy. My original idea for 'Inglourious Basterds' way back when was that this [would be] a huge story that included the [smaller] story that you saw in the film, but also followed a bunch of black troops, and they had been f--ked over by the American military and kind of go apes--t. They basically -- the way Lt. Aldo Raines and the Basterds are having an "Apache resistance" -- [the] black troops go on an Apache warpath and kill a bunch of white soldiers and white officers on a military base and are just making a warpath to Switzerland... I was going to do it as a miniseries, and that was going to be one of the big storylines. When I decided to try to turn it into a movie, that was a section I had to take out to help tame my material. I have most of that written. It's ready to go; I just have to write the second half of it... That would be the third of the trilogy. It would be [connected to] 'Inglourious Basterds,' too, because Inglourious Basterds are in it, but it is about the soldiers. It would be called 'Killer Crow' or something like that."

It's more than likely Killer Crow will end up starring Jamie Foxx and Samuel L. Jackson along with actors that previously were trying out for the role of Django. They included Anthony Mackie, Idris Elba, Will Smith, Michael Kenneth Williams, Terrence Howard, Larenz Tate and Chris Trucker. The Swiss setting could also allow a new crop of talented European actors to be considered as well.

The Basterds will be back and it's expected that Brad Pitt's Lt. Aldo Raine will be returning. Depending on the film's timeline we could also see Eli Roth's Donny Donowitz as well.

Japanese Set WWII Yakuza Thriller THE OUTSIDER Moves To Universal, Daniel Espinosa Still Wants To Direct

Variety reports that The Outsider has been picked up Silver Pictures for Universal. The WWII era film focuses on an American P.O.W. released from a prison camp by the Yakuza for him to work for the criminal organization. It was originally setup at Warner Bros. with Daniel Espinosa (Safe House, Snabba Cash) and they say Daniel is still keen on sticking with the project. Michael Fassbender and Tom Hardy had been in talks for the lead but their involvement is unknown.

George Clooney's MONUMENTS MEN Lands Daniel Craig, Cate Blanchett, Jean Dujardin And Others

Deadline reports that George Clooney's next directorial effort Monument Men has nailed down it's cast. The WWII drama's lineup is stunning to say the least with Daniel Craig (Munich, Road To Perdition, Skyfall), Cate Blanchett, Jean Dujardin (The Artist, Wolf of Wall Street), Bill Murray (Moonrise Kingdom), John Goodman (Big Lebowski, Argo), Hugh Bonneville and Bob Balaban. A crew of art historians and museum curators unite to recover renown works of art that were stolen by Nazis before Hitler destroys them.

Trailer For The Flowers Of War Starring Christian Bale