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"Brad Pitt has found his next major role. The Golden Globe-winning actor will play General Stanley McChrystal&amp;#xA0;in an upcoming adaptation of Michael Hastings&amp;apos; 2012 book, The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America&amp;apos;s War in Afghanistan.&amp;#xA0;\r\n\r\nHastings, who was killed at age 33 in a car accident last June, first profiled Gen. McChrystal in a 2010 Rolling Stone piece, &amp;quot;The Runaway General,&amp;quot; which chronicled the General&amp;apos;s war efforts abroad and quoted his and his staff&amp;apos;s negative words about the Obama administration&amp;apos;s handling of the ongoing war in Afghanistan. After the article&amp;apos;s publication, Gen. McChrystal was brought to Washington, D.C. and ended his military career.\r\nPitt will not only star as McChrystal in the big-screen adaptation of The Operators, but will produce the film with his Plan B company. Animal Kingdom director David Mich&amp;#xF4;d will helm the project.&amp;#xA0;\r\n\r\nThe Operators will be Pitt&amp;apos;s second upcoming war film. He is also starring in the World War II flick Fury, scheduled to hit theaters in November.&amp;#xA0;\r\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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