Brad Pitt seems to be all about the war films at the moment, what with War Machine** clanking into gear for Netflix, another **World War Z **film in development and this project, an untitled spy thriller set during World War II which, we now know, will co-star Marion Cotillard.
Robert Zemeckis is aboard to direct the period film, which will reportedly find Pitt and Cotillard as assassins who fall in love while working a mission to take out a German official. They end up getting hitched, but a spanner is thrown in their happiness when Pitt learns that his missus is actually a double agent for the Nazis and his next job will be to kill her.
It’s the latest script from Steven Knight, and while it had been aiming to kick off shooting in the autumn, Zemeckis and Pitt have asked for a delay so Zemeckis can promote **The Walk **and Pitt can fit in War Machine. And the shift means that Cotillard, who would have still been filming **Assassin’s Creed **alongside Michael Fassbender, will now be free to join up. She’ll next be seen, again with Fassbender, in Macbeth, which will be spilling blood on our screens come October 2.