Merrick here...

Paramount has nabbed a manuscript by David Grann about a search for a lost city in the Amazon. The idea is for Brad Pitt to produce the film, in which he'd potentially star.

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...