Brad Pitt is in negotiations to star in his wife Angelina Jolie's forthcoming drama Africa. According to The Wrap, Pitt will play famed archaeologist Richard Leakey in the biopic, which follows Leakey's defense of elephants against poachers in Kenya in the late 1980s. Jolie is working with cinematographer Roger Deakins, who also shot her last film, Unbroken.