Posted by Gina on 11/22/2007, 6:32 am, in reply to "Brad drops out of State of Play"
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Thanks to intothe grinder at simply brad.
Looks like Brad can get serious about extending his family now as went went on about while promoting TAOJJ. They both have a year off together as Angie stated they would.
He walked away from an all star cast with this one. I wonder who they will offer the role to now. George came to mind for me first. I hope it doesn't fall apart completely now, you know they will blame Brad same as they did with the Fountain.
Anyway, had to share, I thought this might be Brad info everyone would be interested in.
Pitt’s camp disputes that he violated a pay or play deal, that he ever approved a final script, or that he even wanted to drop out of the film that he has been the driving force behind for 16 months. At issue is a disagreement with the studio over the final direction of the shooting script.
The film has been a high U priority since the studio and producers Andrew Hauptman and Working Title partners Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner landed the project after a hot bidding battle. Pitt became the first talent attachment, when he agreed to play a politico-turned-journalist whose loyalties are tested when he spearheads a newspaper’s investigation into a murder that leads to the fast-rising pol whose campaigns the journo once ran (Daily Variety, July 27, 2006).
Pitt sparked to a script by Matthew Michael Carnahan, who adapted the Paul Abbott-created British miniseries. While the actor went off and made several movies in quick succession, most recently “Burn After Reading,” Universal went through rewrites by the likes of Peter Morgan, Tony Gilroy and Billy Ray. While the film attracted a sparkling cast, Pitt’s vision departed with that of the studio somewhere along that rewrite trail.
Numerous films have been unplugged within the last week because of the writer’s strike, but the others were by mutual agreement between the studios and the filmmakers. This was different. Pitt wanted to wait for a strike resolution to get a final rewrite that brought the film back to Carnahan’s original. Universal brass liked the rewritten script better, and told Pitt to honor a contractual commitment so that the studio could release the film for late 2008.
If the studio cannot recast, it is possible that growing bad blood will result in a lawsuit, rather than in Pitt getting that rewrite he wanted. Several years ago, the studio sued Mike Myers when he didn’t go forward with “Dieter,” a dispute that was eventually settled.
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