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Rumour has it that Brad Pitt is going into the Amazon.

He will play out the story of an enigmatic explorer in search of his personal El Dorado. The explorer in question was Colonel Percy Fawcett, a highly resilient English surveyor who set off almost 85 years ago on his final expedition into the Amazon.  Fawcett, a celebrated veteran of many journeys into the unknown, secretly believed he had discovered scientific evidence of a lost civilisation within the vastness of what today is known as the Xingu, in north-eastern Brazil. 

Despite mounting evidence to the contrary, he remained resolute and journeyed repeatedly into the forest, determined to find it.  Newspapers published despatches detailing his quest for many months, but then all news ceased. Like Livingstone 50 years before him, Fawcett had vanished into a dark continent; only this time, no-one ever found him. 

Source; Andrew Mitchell of the BBC