Overview
- Apple Original Films’ acquisition of Connector was reported Thursday, November 12 and confirmed by a repost from Apple TV’s X account, with Brad Pitt attached to star and to produce through his Plan B banner.
- Darius Marder will direct and co-write the screenplay with his sister Nina Marder from a story by Derek Cianfrance, and Marder is also listed as a producer.
- The project is described in its logline as a 1970s New York story about a ‘sky‑walking’ ironworker who becomes a working‑class legend and confronts forces larger than himself.
- Connector remains in development with Plan B producers Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner attached, and sources say Pitt is highly interested and may make it the first thing he shoots in 2027, though no schedule or release plan is finalized.
- The film continues the Apple–Plan B partnership that delivered the hit F1, and it represents Marder’s first feature since Sound of Metal, a six‑time Oscar nominee that won two Academy Awards.