Brad Pitt and Harry Styles Join Forces in Faster, Cheaper, Better

The Internet had to stop and catch its breath Wednesday after an international distributor let slip that Brad Pitt and Harry Styles may soon be appearing in the same movie. 

The palpitation-inducing actors are apparently set to work together on Faster, Cheaper, Better, a drama about how human workers are gradually being outmoded and replaced by artificial intelligence, drones, and robots. 

The film is from writer-director Dan Gilroy, best known for Nightcrawler, with Jake Gyllenhaal, and Denzel Washington’s Roman J. Israel, Esq. Gilroy described the new project in a June interview with Deadline as, “a big multi-narrative film, set over two decades in multiple locales.” So it’s not clear whether the “Watermelon Sugar” singer and Pitt would actually share screen time or turn up in separate chapters of the story.

The casting news appeared on the website of Vértice Cine, which picked up the Italian and Latin American rights to the project at this summer’s virtual Cannes Film Market. While there has been no official confirmation from the filmmaker, Vértice included both a plot synopsis and images of the two actors on its site. Once word began to spread, the casting started trending on Twitter, with Faster, Cheaper, Better inspiring comments that can only be described as Eager, Thirsty, Yearning.

As Vértice Cine says, the movie explores “changes that are coming in the trucking industry, weighing the possibility of an industry without humans driving the vehicles.”

Among the characters, it lists “a union boss, a young businessman, a farm manager, and a tech millionaire,” all of whom find their livelihoods cut short when automation sweeps the world. “In the end, everyone must face the meaning of being human.”

The movie hasn’t started shooting yet, and no release date is set. But that doesn’t mean fans can’t keep their hopes up for the story of Robots vs. Heartthrobs.

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