7:17pm UK, Tuesday February 25, 2003

Hollywood heavyweights Nicole Kidman and Brad Pitt are joining forces for a new movie.

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The pair are in negotiations to star as killers-for-hire in action-adventure feature Mr and Mrs Smith.

The film will be directed by Doug Liman and is described as The War Of The Roses meets True Lies.

Pitt and Oscar nominee Kidman would play a bored married couple who discover they are enemy assassins hired to kill each other.

Oscar-winning screenwriter Akiva Goldsman is producing the film.

Kidman is favoured to win this year's best actress Oscar for her role in The Hours.

She is currently making new movie Birth and will follow that with a Paramount Pictures remake of the classic, The Stepford Wives.

Pitt begins shooting Troy in April.