Paramount Pictures has preemptively purchased the David Grann manuscript Lost City of Z. In addition to producing the feature through his Plan B shingle, Brad Pitt may star in the picture as well. Lost City of Z focuses on “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.” Variety delivers the news.