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Brad Pitt has found his next movie with Apple. Apple Original Films has come aboard Connector, a period drama set in 1970s New York that will star Pitt as a high-steel ironworker, with Sound of Metal director Darius Marder directing. Deadline broke the news on November 12, and Apple confirmed the project the same day, according to TheWrap. It is the first film Pitt and Apple have announced together since F1, which became the highest-grossing sports movie ever made.
What is Brad Pitt’s Connector about?
Plot details are thin, which is normal for a project still in development. The official logline describes Pitt’s character as a working-class legend in 1970s Manhattan, “a sky-walking ironworker who takes on forces larger than himself.” Ironworkers walk narrow steel beams hundreds of feet above the street to raise skyscrapers, and the job has long been a source of New York folklore. The title appears to come from that world: on a high-rise crew, a “connector” is the worker who bolts each new beam into place at the top of the frame.
Marder wrote the script with his sister, Nina Marder, who was also his co-writer on Sound of Metal.
Who is directing Connector?
This is Darius Marder’s first feature since his 2019 narrative debut. Sound of Metal starred Riz Ahmed as a drummer losing his hearing. It earned six Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay, and won Oscars for Best Sound and Best Film Editing. Before that, Marder co-wrote Derek Cianfrance’s The Place Beyond the Pines.
Who is producing Connector, and when will it film?
Pitt will produce through Plan B alongside his longtime partners Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner, and Marder is also a producer. Apple Studios is the studio. Deadline reports that Pitt and Marder had been talking about the project for some time, and that after the latest draft came in, Pitt was keen to make it his next shoot in 2027. Apple has not announced a start date, other cast or a release window yet.
According to Deadline, Apple was the natural home because of the relationship it built with Plan B on F1 and the George Clooney comedy Wolfs.
Why the Apple and Brad Pitt reunion matters
F1 was Apple’s biggest theatrical hit by a wide margin and earned a Best Picture nomination, which proved the company could make a real box office event. Going back to Pitt with a prestige director suggests Apple is betting on star-driven adult dramas for theaters, not just streaming.
Pitt is busy in the meantime. David Fincher’s The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth opens in IMAX on November 25 before arriving on Netflix on December 23. Next year he also stars in Edward Berger’s The Riders for A24. For the rest of this season’s big releases, see our guide to the biggest movies still coming in 2026.
Studios keep landing big stars for adult-skewing originals. Just this week Amazon MGM showed off Michael B. Jordan’s Thomas Crown Affair. We will update this story as Apple announces casting and dates for Connector.
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Sources: Deadline, TheWrap, IndieWire, 9to5Mac