Brad Pitt's film company, Plan B, has picked up the rights to screen the life of a journalist who helped blow the cover of a con man.

The film will focus on Linda Trest, a Missouri journalist who exposed con artist known as "Sergeant Bill." The fraud posed as a federal agent and kicked people out of their homes, as per the Hollywood Reporter.

The studio is in talks with David Benioff, writer for Pitt's epic flick "Troy," and screenwriters Anthony Walton and Andrew Dresher to pen the script.