It is reported that Brad Pitt is to team up with Conclave director Edward Berger on a big-screen adaptation of the 1994 Tim Winton book The Riders - some of which was set in Ireland.
US entertainment trade publication Deadline, which first reported the news, says The Riders will begin production early next year and film "in multiple locations across Europe".
Of The Riders, Deadline says: "The novel follows Fred Scully (Pitt), who, after travelling through Europe for two years, winds up in Ireland with his wife and daughter. And on a mystical whim of his wife Jennifer, they buy an old farmhouse that stands in the shadow of a castle.
"While Scully spends weeks alone renovating the old house, Jennifer returns to Australia to liquidate their assets.
"When Scully arrives at Shannon Airport to pick up Jennifer and their seven-year-old daughter, Billie, it is Billie who emerges - alone.
"There is no note, no explanation, not so much as a word from Jennifer, and the shock has left Billie speechless. In that instant, Scully's life falls to pieces."
Scully and Billie then travel around Europe searching for Jennifer.
The adaptation of Australian author Winton's Booker-nominated novel will be written by David Kajganich (Bones and All, Suspiria, The Terror, A Bigger Splash).
Pitt's Plan B Entertainment is among the producers of The Riders, as is Ridley Scott's company Scott Free.
Pitt will next be seen in cinemas opposite Irish star Kerry Condon in the motor racing movie F1. It opens on Wednesday 25 June.
Watch: The trailer for F1.
