Brad Pitt has been looking for a lover for his next WWII movie and he has finally found one in Oscar winner Marion Cotillard, who’s in negotiations to join him in the untitled period film that Robert Zemeckis is directing for Paramount and New Regency, TheWrap has learned.
Zemeckis is also producing the romantic spy drama with his longtime collaborator Steve Starkey as well as Graham King. Steven Knight wrote the script and will serve as an executive producer alongside Jack Rapke, Patrick McCormick and Denis O’Sullivan.
Pitt and Cotillard will play assassins who fall in love during a mission to kill a German official.