Warner Bros. Pictures has acquired the rights to sci-fi book "The Sparrow" for Plan B and Industry Entertainment. Brad Pitt has a longtime interest in the project, a potential starring vehicle for him reports Variety.
Scribe Michael Seitzman ("North Country") is adapting Mary Doria Russell's debut novel of the same name, studio and producers are waiting to see a draft of Seitzman's adaptation before moving ahead.
Story revolves around a Jesuit priest who accompanies a crew of space travelers to a distant planet after Earth receives its first communication from an alien culture. The clergyman and crew befriend one of the planet's two races, unwittingly provoking a bloody war and shaking the foundations of the priest's faith.
