Brad Pitt Joining Angelina Jolie in New Film ‘Africa’

8:30 AM EST 2/2/2015 by Kara Michelle, Celebeat Reporter

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Brangelina is back and badder than ever!

The A-list couple will be joining forces once more to bring to life Angie's new directorial film, Africa.

Africa will be written by Oscar winner and Forrest Gump writer, Eric Roth, and will be the biopic of the renowned archeologist and Kenyan politician, Richard Leakey. Leaky was the first chairman of the Kenya Wildlife Services in 1990 and was also responsible for the crackdown on elephant poaching. Furthermore, he was awarded the Isaac Asimov Science Award by the American Humanist Association in 2013. Unbroken's cinematographer, Roger Deakins, will be joining the couple for the upcoming film.

This isn't the first time Roth will be working with one of the couple as he had written the screenplay for Brad Pitt's 2008 film, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. For Jolie, this marks as her fifth directorial project where she had worked on the 2007 documentary A Place in Time, the 2011 film In the Land of Blood and Honey and, her most recent work, Unbroken.  The two have worked together in By The Sea, which wrapped up its production last year.

The couple first worked together in the 2005 action spy film, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, where they reportedly fell in love.

According to her interview will Yahoo News, Us Weekly quotes 39-year-old Jolie, "I've felt a deep connection to Africa and its culture for much of my life. [The film's about] a man drawn into the violent conflict with elephant poachers, who emerged with a deeper understanding of man's footprint and a profound sense of responsibility for the world around him."

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