Brad Pitt is set to shoot his latest film, a western titled The Assassination of Jesse James, in Calgary this summer.

According to the Calgary Sun, Pitt was the one who pushed to bring the project to the Albertan city, where he filmed Legends of the Fall in 1993.

“It’s one of the most beautiful places I’ve filmed,” Pitt once said while promoting Ocean’s Twelve. “I’d come back in a heartbeat if the right project came along.”

An unnamed Warner Bros. executive told the Calgary paper that Jesse James has been fast-tracked to begin shooting after being approved only last week.

“We have a tentative date of late August or early September,” said the executive. “Brad Pitt is the only actor attached to the project at this time.”

Jesse James is just one of several films preparing to shoot in Alberta in the coming months. Also approved for production are the Robin Williams comedy RV, a Robert Duvall western called Daughters of Joy, and a tale of a wagon train journey titled September Dawn.


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