Brad Pitt is set for "The Tigers"

Brad Pitt will be producing and star in the adventure thriller "The Tiger", based on John Vaillant upcoming nonfiction book.

The story 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. - Variety.

Guillermo Arriaga to pen the creenplay and it will be helm by Darren Aronofsky.

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