Logan Lerman has joined Brad Pitt and Shia LaBeouf in director David Ayer‘s Fury, a tank-based World War II thriller set during April of 1945.
As the Allies make their final push in the European Theater, a battle-hardened army sergeant named Wardaddy (Pitt) commands a Sherman tank and her five-man crew on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. Outnumbered and outgunned, Wardaddy and his men face overwhelming odds in their heroic attempts to strike at the heart of Nazi Germany. Fury is the name of the tank.
Lerman will play Norman Ellison, an Army typist and the youngest and most inexperienced member of the crew who is thrust into being a tank gunner.
Ayer penned the script and Columbia Pictures will distribute the film, which is budgeted at $80 million and looking at a fall production start.
Ayer, coming off the excellent End of Watch, is assembling an impressive cast, Lerman being a solid pick-up following his turn in Perks of Being a Wallflower last year and an upcoming role in Darren Aronofsky‘s Noah, though I have my doubts concerning the necessity for this summer’s Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters.
