Brad Pitt sure likes films with enigmatic titles – in fact it seems to be his main way of picking movies. Now he’s got another one, Hatfield and the McCoys, based on the true story of feuding neighbours in the 19th Century.
Hollywood Elsewhere (via /Film) managed to get the latest info on the project from Robert Duvall, while he was out promoting his new film, Get Low. The actor said that Pitt’s Plan B productions is driving the project and that Brad recently met with Crazy Heart director Scott Cooper about helming the project. Eric Roth has written the script (he also wrote The Cruious Case Of Benjamin Button) and T-Bone Burnett will do the music. It’s certainly quite a line-up, although it appears all this is still in the works, rather than that everyone has signed on the dotted line.
The legend of the Hatfields and the McCoys is well known in America, and stems from two families living in Tug Valley – one on the Kentucky side and the other on the West Viginia side. One side fought with the Confederacy during the American Civil War and the others the Union. However the feud really started with the murder of one of the McCoys in 1865. Things kept escalating, with a dispute over the ownership of a pig ending in a killing, there was a contentious affair between two members of the opposing families, then several more murder, which all led up to a massacre, where the Hatfields surrounded the McCoy cabin and started firing.
It could make quite a movie.