Hot on the heels of roles in Guy Ritchie's Snatch and Fight Club, Brad Pitt is to continue his love affair with fight movies, with a plan to portray one of Britain's most notorious bare-knuckle boxers.

The recently-married actor is lined up to play gypsy hardman Bobby Frankman, who trained Pitt for his role as a boxer in Guy Ritchie's latest movie Snatch. The picture will be an adaptation of the autobiography Frankham is currently penning, provisionally titled The King of the Gypsies.

Ritchie has apparently intimated to Frankham that he'd like to direct the picture, which would be set in England. "It's like a Rambo type thing, it's gonna be a proper gypsy fighting film," explained Frankham.

"It's good that Brad's in it. I can't think of a better bloke to play me... It's gonna be a bit of a gangster movie, all about gypsies, how we act and show it ain't an easy life.

"It'll show how we duck and dive and earn a living and how we go about things, the fights and the things we do. And it's a hard old life, you know, being brought up in a trailer eating hedgehogs."

Former boxer Frankham, 34, first found fame when he was banned for life for hitting a referee during a bout in 1989. Since then the hardman has fought a number of high profile illegal bare knuckle fights, which led Guy Ritchie to his door when the director was making Snatch.