Brad Pitt stars in World War II film shot in Gran Canaria
Brad Pitt stars in World War II film shot in Gran Canaria
A SECOND World War film starring Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard will be partly filmed in the city of Las Palmas in Gran Canaria.
Allied, directed by Robert Zemeckis, is currently being shot in London and is due to move to the first of three locations in Las Palmas in the next few days.
One of these will be the Plaza de Cairasco.
Brad Pitt will play the part, Max Vatan, an Intelligence official on a mission who meets Marion Cotillard's character Marianne Beausejour, an enemy and fighter in the French Résistance.
They get together, but their relationship is threatened by the extreme pressures of the war.
Other members of the cast include Jared Harris (Operation U.N.C.L.E.), Lizzy Caplan (Masters of Sex) and Matthew Goode (Downton Abbey).
An audition for extras will take place on April 20 at the Miller Building in Las Palmas for a different international production, the name of which has not been revealed.
Applicants are required to have a 'classical look', according to production company Sur Films.
