Babylon: Brad Pitt and Emma Stone in talks to star in Damien Chazelle’s new film

The director of La La Land is back with a period movie set in Hollywood

La La Land director Damien Chazelle could be reuniting with Emma Stone for his new film Babylon, with Brad Pitt also in talks to join the cast.

The movie is set in a transitional period in Hollywood when the industry was moving on from silent films to talkies, according to Deadline, which by our estimation would mean the action takes place in the 1920s.

Babylon, written and directed by Chazelle, will also combine real historical characters with fictional ones.

Unlike La La Land and Chazelle’s forthcoming Netflix series The Eddy, the new film will not be a musical.

Stone won an Oscar, along with Chazelle, for her role in La La Land. If Stone and Pitt sign up to star in Babylon, it will be the duo’s first collaboration.

In October, Stone will return as Wichita for Zombieland: Double Tap and Pitt can next be seen opposite Leonardo DiCaprio and Margot Robbie in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, which hits cinemas in August.