Hollywood superstar Brad Pitt has flown into Auckland this week, before he sets off to film in Queenstown and Milford Sound.
Sources told the Herald the 61-year-old actor is in Auckland doing pre-production work before heading south.
Queenstown will serve as a setting for Alaska during the filming of Heart of the Beast, a story about a former Navy Seal and his retired combat dog attempting to return to civilization after suffering an accident deep in the wilderness.
He will reunite with director David Ayer who he worked with on 2014’s World War Two action film Fury.
According to the Otago Daily Times, the shoot will last five to seven weeks before post-production takes place in Auckland.
Pitt won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019) and is among Hollywood’s most bankable stars having appeared in such films as: Fight Club (1999), Moneyball (2011), Troy (2004) and Burn After Reading (2008).
Pitt was in the news recently after an AI-generated version of the actor persuaded a French woman to hand over €830,000 ($1.5m) for cancer treatment in the midst of his divorce battle with Angelina Jolie.
Anne, a 53-year-old interior designer, said she believed that she and the Hollywood star had fallen in love online and would marry, so she divorced her husband and then wired fraudsters all the money from the settlement.
Pitt has urged fans to be vigilant about catfishing.
Source:NZ Herald
