Grann's forthcoming nonfiction book concerns British explorer Col. Percy Harrison Fawcett, who was attempting to find the so-called City of Z when he and his party disappeared in 1925. Over the next 70 years, scores of explorers tried and failed to retrace Fawcett's path, including a 1996 expedition of Brazilian adventurers. Pitt would play Fawcett....says THIS ARTICLE in Variety. Grann has expanded his 2005 New Yorker article [FIND IT HERE] into a book that'll be published in February. -- snorts derisively -- Indiana Jones wouldn't have gotten lost in the Amazon...