Thaindian News

June 19, 2010 (Sampurn Wire): Hollywood actor and producer Brad Pitt has joined hands with Reliance BIG Entertainment to get the screen rights to Tom Rachman’s bestseller “The Imperfectionists’. The novel was published this spring by Dial Press.

Pitt’s company Plan B Entertainment will make a commercial and extremely relevant film on this novel with its partnership company, stated Amit Khanna, Chairman of Reliance BIG Entertainment.

The novel is based on the experience of Rachman at the Associated Press bureau in Rome as a wire service reporter. The story revolves around the maddening, quirky and endearing group of people, who write and read an international newspaper in Rome.

The novel is written as series of short stories, which has no central character or straightforward plot. But the Hollywood star was impressed by the storyline and he got the rights for an undisclosed sum.

According to Rachman, a coherent film adaptation is quite possible from this. He added, “It will be interesting to see how then can make it possible. Many other films are already made based on this type of novels. So, it is not impossible. A film cannot be made exactly on this novel, but that’s true for every novel. For the screenwriter, it is going to be a fun work somewhere.”

It will tell about an obituary reporter, who can do anything to avoid work. Then, there is a young freelancer, who gets controlled by an egocentric war correspondent. And the publisher seems to be more interested in his magnificent basset hound than in his struggling newspaper.

Rachman is expected to be just an observer to the production. However, he would listen if offered a role in the filmmaking process.

– Sampurn Wire