Brad Pitt and Darren Aronofsky are teaming up in the wild with a tiger.

The actor and director will work together on the adventure thriller The Tiger at Focus Features.  Guillermo Arriaga will write the script.

The film is based on an upcoming nonfiction book by John Vaillant called “The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival.”

The story takes place on the Siberian plain, where human development is encroaching on the tigers’ habitat.  One tiger turns on the intruders. With townspeople being tracked and hunted with an almost supernatural power, a conservationist game warden must face down the tiger. It is a fight that only one of them can win.