Tate Taylor

Brad Pitt Working with The Help Director

Brad Pitt's been wanting to bring the novel Peace Like a River to the big screen since 2002, when his production company Plan B bought the rights. The story follows an 11-year-old boy suffering from severe asthma as he embarks on a journey with his sister and father across the country in search of his older brother, who was charged with murder.

Production on the movie is now underway, with The Help's writer and director, Tate Taylor, helming the project. Pitt spoke about the movie at the Producers Guild Awards on Saturday, explaining the delay to Entertainment Weekly.

The first one was The Departed. The second one was this one, and it's just taken awhile for it to gestate and find the right guy to tell it.

Despite Pitt's enthusiasm for producing, don't expect him in the director's chair any time during his career. When asked if this was a possibility, he responded:

Hell no. Not interested. Not my thing.

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First Trailer for The Help Starring Emma Stone, Bryce Dallas Howard, and Viola Davis

The first trailer has debuted for actor/director Tate Taylor's (Winter's Bone) adaptation of The Help, based on the novel by Kathryn Stockett.

Set in a segregated city of Jackson, Mississippi, during the 1960s The Help tells the stories of three women — young college graduate Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan (Emma Stone) and African American maids Aibileen Clark (Viola Davis) and Minny Jackson (Octavia Spencer) — and how their intertwining lives represent the racial divide of their southern town.

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