Netflix has made another bold move to dismiss the notion that the service is only good for binge-watching television shows.
On Monday, the video streaming site acquired the distribution rights to the next Brad Pitt film, "War Machine," which will start shooting in August. The movie will premiere simultaneously on Netflix and in select theaters next year.
Netflix will co-produce the feature with Pitt's company Plan B and the 51-year-old actor will star in the lead role. David Michôd wrote the provocative satirical comedy inspired by the best-selling novel, "The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America's War in Afghanistan," written by the late Michael Hastings.
"'War Machine' is a rip-roaring, behind-the-façade tale of modern war decision-makers, from the corridors of power to the distant regions of America's ambitions," Netflix Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos said in a statement. "Brad and David are a perfect team to make this timely, compelling and entertaining film."
The movie follows a four-star general, much like the book's subject, General Stanley McChrystal, whose lethal reputation and impeccable track record vaults him to command the American war in Afghanistan, an "impossible" war that he's determined to win with a radical new approach.
"We are so excited to be a part of the inspiring commitment by Netflix to produce cutting-edge content and to deliver it to a global audience," Pitt said in the statement.
Michôd added, "I'm humbled to be making a big, bold movie about the whole sprawling, complex, cumbersome and crazy machinery of modern war and the many lives it touches."
The hefty pickup comes only a few weeks after Netflix acquired the distribution rights to the upcoming Kevin James comedy, "The True Memoirs of an International Assassin," according to Variety. The streaming service also has a four-movie deal in place with Adam Sandler and will distribute Cary Fukunaga's "Beasts of No Nation" as well as the film, "Jadotville," starring Jamie Dornan.
"War Machine" will be available for streaming for Netflix subscribers in 2016.
