Lerman Is Tank Gunner In "Fury"

Deadline reports that Logan Lerman has signed on to join the war tank movie "Fury".

Set in the closing days of the fighting in Europe during World War II, the story follows the five-man crew of an American tank named Fury that runs across a desperate German division.

Brad Pitt and Shia Labeouf also star. Lerman is playing Norman Ellison, an Army typist who is the youngest of the crew, who is forced to become their new tail gunner.

David Ayer's calling action using his own script and says that he wants to "make a war movie for modern audiences that explored battlefield heroics in an honest way".

Bill Block, John Lesher and Ethan Smith are producing the film.

Ayer is now in post-production on the Sam Worthington/Arnold Schwarzenegger action-thriller "Ten" .

Shooting begins in September.

Lerman hits theaters in "Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Sea of Monsters" on August 16th.