OlderBrad Pitt Drops ‘State of Play’
Brad Pitt has dropped out of State of Play and Universal Pictures is currently trying to replace him, according to Variety.
If Brad’s character doesn’t recast and get the picture going by Nov. 29, it will begin losing the other actors in the film and Universal can bring a lawsuit against Brad for bailing.
Brad was set to star alongside Edward Norton, Helen Mirren, Rachel McAdams, Jason Bateman and Robin Wright Penn in the Matthew Michael Carnahan-scripted adaptation of the British miniseries. Brad was playing a politico-turned-journalist who spearheads a newspaper’s investigation of a murder, a trail that leads to the fast-rising pol whose campaigns were once masterminded by Brad’s character.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Brad has pulled out because of script concerns and the script cannot be worked on due to the writers strike.
Who could possibly fill the shoes of Brad Pitt??
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i like j.deep and matt damon so im not bashing them just reading the graphics.
again brad is having a bad week(the state movie,the n orleans project,the j.deep movie that will be produce by pitt plan b was postponed but he has ANGELINA :BOXOFFICE QUEEN THIS WEEK ,his family and us(fans)
174 SNOOPY :
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This movie is going to fail without Brad.
OK, why are you guys talking to a moron like ’sam’????? That idiot has so many names I can’t even remember them all and IT has been on ignore at JJB so IT comes here for attention. Do you really want to give IT attention???
credit to roo of jjb
the real story
This is the real story direct from Global Green
New Orleans, November 21, 2007- Global Green USA’s Holy Cross Project, the most significant new construction in the Lower Ninth Ward since Katrina, is being developed on a formerly vacant site with some former light industrial use that left behind what is known as a brownfield. As such, we are addressing the soil contaminants we have found, mostly some isolated pockets of lead that, as we understand from the previous owner, resulted from sandblasting related to the adjacent wharf activities. As an environmental group we are taking most aggressive remediation process available, and hope others will do same.
A significant part of the vision of the project has always been to rebuild a green New Orleans, and part of that vision is turning formerly contaminated areas into vibrant, healthy, green communities. Global Green USA has a proactive, rigorous and cautious program of addressing contamination on the site, working closely with the state Department of Environmental Quality on testing to determine the extent of contamination, and to begin the cleanup of the site.
Soil contamination of construction sites in New Orleans is very common due to their history of industrial and shipping uses. The needed cleanup was anticipated, and is being done with transparency, public notification, and in compliance with regulations for safe occupation of the site. In fact, the site is being considered by the state of Louisiana for a precedent setting process of engaging the public in a review of the remediation program.
Global Green’s model affordable green housing project in Holy Cross, a section of the devastated Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans, will see the first building, a single family house, completed by the end of the year. It will initially be used as a Visitor center to provide information on green building before the entire housing development is completed, on schedule, by the end of next year. The Holy Cross project provides important models for adopting healthy green building practices that will conserve energy and save money for its residents.
Global Green’s progressive cleanup remediation process will be a part of the site’s story of renewal. It will also prove that once vacant brownfields can become new, vibrant communities. Global Green is working to make that happen on its Holy Cross site. This model should in turn encourage many more such developments throughout the city where Katrina has created many other opportunities for renewal. The people who evacuated their
Yes, true :-)
The graph with Beowulf also shows how successful the movie is - I bet many people around the world did not hear about Beowulf before…
174 SNOOPY : 11/21/2007 at 7:52 pm
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Switching directors don’t fix script problems.
credit to roo from jjb:
Soil contamination of construction sites in New Orleans is very common due to their history of industrial and shipping uses. The needed cleanup was anticipated, and is being done with transparency, public notification, and in compliance with regulations for safe occupation of the site. In fact, the site is being considered by the state of Louisiana for a precedent setting process of engaging the public in a review of the remediation program.
LMAO @ MD is the sexiest man alive of this year. He is cute but not sexy. Only Brad Pitt is the sexiest man alive of all time.
Hey Guli - you sure are one nasty piece of work. Leave people alone. Stop trying to control who they respond to. I’m sure they all have working minds of their own and can think for themselves.
174 SNOOPY : 11/21/2007 at 7:52 pm
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LOL. Brad didn’t have a problem with the director. He had a problem with the script. He’s had problems with it from the get go and they’ve been rewriting it for his approval.
Brad’s the one that got the director on board. Brad was attached since Oct. of 2006. The director came on board in May 2007.
179 sam p : 11/21/2007 at 8:01 pm
credit to roo of jjb
the real story
This is the real story direct from Global Green
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Actually that’s good to hear. Global Green will achieve two goals. The soil will be cleaned and the homes will be builted as they were supposed to.
185 Observer2 : 11/21/2007 at 8:11 pm
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It seems some people can’t even separate the job of a director and a script writer.LOL!!
54 blueberry at 5:31 pm
Too much jealousy?
Why, your boyfriend or…is like a ET?
Well, Brad is a great actor. Some are saying he cannot act. Did you see “Legends of the Fall,” “Seven,” “Twelve Monkies,” “Seven Years In Tibet,” and “Meet Joe Black?” He did not become an A-lister by doing B movies. He is already an accomplished actor. Everybody is replaceable, true, but quite hard to replace Mr. Pitt. Thanks JJ and I’m sure this news will not end here. Thank you Brad for keeping up the quality of your films. Hope for the best to you and your family. Happy Thanksgiving all JP fans and especially to you JJ.
187 think positive! : 11/21/2007 at 8:16 pm
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I know, Brad’s been the driving force behind the movie for the past 16 months and liked the original script. It went off the rails when the studio got involved and their vision parted company.
Brad walked away, the studio tried to force him to stay.
Thanks Jared for the new thread and oh darn I was so looking forward to seeing this movie. Maybe if they get the concerns regarding the scripts worked out, he might do it, but with the darn strike that is unlikely, but oh well…
Hey Jared, HAVE A WONDERFUL THANKSGIVING.
I am out
#85: Shia is fast becoming the male version of Lindsay Lohan. Party boy and good candidate for rehab in the future. He’s got a nasty temper too cause he’s already got a record.
James McAvoy seems like a decent guy and is good looking too. He’ll make it big if he keeps getting good scripts and continues playing different roles. He’s my favorite of the three.
Ryan Gosling is a good actor but I don’t think his castmates like him much. Too egotistic and it’s early yet. He’ll probably be another Ed Norton (as far as acting is concerned).
So far, Brad, George, Johnny and Will have nothing to fear. No replacements in sight as of yet.
174 SNOOPY : 11/21/2007 at 7:52 pm
Brad probably shouldn’t have argued with the hot young director Kevin MacDonald! He’s British. He’s an Oscar Winner. He just came off of the Last King of Scotland and he’s a genious. If Brad had a case, Universal would have found a new director for Pitt. Looks like they chose an A+ cast and an A+ Director over a man with one of the lowest Q scores in all of Hollywood. With this cast and this Director, they’ll have no problem replacing Pitt.
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What is a q score?
The entire cast was great but if the script suck just like Rendition and Lions of the lamb, A list casts, poor script = flop.
pitt version_credit again to roo
Variety updated as Brad is giving his version
Brad Pitt drops out of ‘State of Play’
Universal will try to recast by Nov. 29
By MICHAEL FLEMING
This article was updated at 5:01 p.m.
Pitt ankled the film early Wednesday, following two weeks of struggle and meetings with director Kevin Macdonald that prevented the film from making its original November 15 production start date. The studio considers Pitt to have walked out of a pay or play commitment, and is leaving open the option to sue him if the picture cannot be recast in time to keep the other actors in place.
The studio has already begun trying to replace Pitt. But while strike-related production postponements on films like “Angels & Demons” and “Shantaram” made stars like Tom Hanks and Johnny Depp suddenly available, Universal has a very small window to work with. If the studio doesn’t recast and begin production in L.A. and D.C., it will begin losing other cast.
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.
Thanks Jared for putting up a new thread for the BAMPZS fans. Hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday!!!! :-) :-)
190 Observer2 : 11/21/2007 at 8:21 pm
187 think positive! : 11/21/2007 at 8:16 pm
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I know, Brad’s been the driving force behind the movie for the past 16 months and liked the original script. It went off the rails when the studio got involved and their vision parted company.
Brad walked away, the studio tried to force him to stay.
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What you said exactly is written in here. Variety updated their article.
Variety updated as Brad is giving his version
Brad Pitt drops out of ‘State of Play’
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niversal will try to recast by Nov. 29
By MICHAEL FLEMING
This article was updated at 5:01 p.m.
Pitt ankled the film early Wednesday, following two weeks of struggle and meetings with director Kevin Macdonald that prevented the film from making its original November 15 production start date. The studio considers Pitt to have walked out of a pay or play commitment, and is leaving open the option to sue him if the picture cannot be recast in time to keep the other actors in place.
The studio has already begun trying to replace Pitt. But while strike-related production postponements on films like “Angels & Demons” and “Shantaram” made stars like Tom Hanks and Johnny Depp suddenly available, Universal has a very small window to work with. If the studio doesn’t recast and begin production in L.A. and D.C., it will begin losing other cast.
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.
Roo26 Kanga/JJB.
Q score is a number to measure an actor’s likeability. Brad has the HIGHEST SCORE.
The poster SNOOPY is a LIAR who consistently plants rumors and lies.
Anyone who uses common sense will know that Brad is well liked in hollywood. Just look at the number of movie offers he received. These are facts.
If anything my parents have taught me right, it is to use common sense.
Never believe anything written about Brad or Angie unless they or their rep confirm.
I do not think he walked away from SOP.
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