Animal Kingdom Director Eyeing Military Drama The Operators With Brad Pitt As The Lead

Per Deadline, director David Michôd is eyeing to adapt Michael Hastings' book, The Operators to a feature film, which already counts with Brad Pitt as a producer and perhaps as its leading man. Deadline says that book chronicles “the rise and fall of Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the commanding general of international and U.S. forces in Afghanistan. It portrays the backrooms and politics behind the war, and the high-stake maneuvers and the political firestorm that shook the country”, and judging by the book synopsis it will focus more on the McChrystal's day-to-day operations in Afghanistan then just Rolling Stone's article.

Michôd's feature directorial debut, Animal Kingdom, is a film gem and i can't wait to see what he will do with this story. In the meantime the director as another movie coming out, The Rover, starring Guy Pearce, Robert Pattinson and Scoot McNairy.

The Operators books Synopsis via Amazon:

A shocking behind-the-scenes portrait of our military commanders, their high-stake maneuvers, and the politcal firestorm that shook the United States.

In the shadow of the hunt for Bin Laden and the United States’ involvement in the Middle East, General Stanley McChrystal, the commanding general of international and U.S. forces in Afghanistan, was living large. His loyal staff liked to call him a “rock star.” During a spring 2010 trip, journalist Michael Hastings looked on as McChrystal and his staff let off steam, partying and openly bashing the Obama administration. When Hastings’s article appeared in Rolling Stone, it set off a political firestorm: McChrystal was unceremoniously fired.

In The Operators, Hastings picks up where his Rolling Stone coup ended. From patrol missions in the Afghan hinterlands to senior military advisors’ late-night bull sessions to hotel bars where spies and expensive hookers participate in nation-building, Hastings presents a shocking behind-the-scenes portrait of what he fears is an unwinnable war.

Written in prose that is at once eye-opening and other times uncannily conversational, readers of No Easy Day will take to Hastings’ unyielding first-hand account of the Afghan War and its cast of players.

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