Comments on: Brad Pitt Officially Out Of ‘The Lost City Of Z’

By: sunny

sunny — Fri, 13 May 2016 15:38:56 +0000

Coogan\’s Trade\’s distributing company Inferno Entertainment has worked as international sales agent on The Lost City Of Z at Cannes FF this year.
That is more than $100mill project and it seems to me that they failed to find financiers. It was first reported that the studio would not greenlit that movie without someone\’s full funding.

By: Edward

Edward — Fri, 13 May 2016 15:38:56 +0000

Man as someone said you need to get your facts straight. Pitt bailed on The Fountain because once he signed on the studio kept throwing huge money at it because they had a big name attached and persuaded Aronofsky to alter the movie so much that it was no longer the smaller film Pitt signed on for. Aronofsky has since said that Pitt was right to walk and that he was too eager to please the studio and inexperienced to stand up and stay true to his vision. Aronofsky & Pitt are fine about this.

Ditto with State of Play. Pitt shepherded that film from a script he loved by Carnahan bringing on MacDonald as director and Norton and Wright-Penn. Once again another studio decided to mess with the orginal version and handed Pitt the rewritten script by committee just days before the writers\’ strike and basically said take it or leave it. Unfortunately for the studio Pitt has script approval and play or pay contracts and felt it was too far from the original script & had serious problems. He wanted to wait until the strike was over so they could get it right. Studio tried to play hardball with Pitt and distort what really happened so he walked – with their $20 million. Which let him do Malick\’s Tree of Life for nothing. Not bad.

And you must know how Warner Brothers dumped Jesse James and refused to back it in any way after Pitt and the Brothers Scott refused to change it into a shoot em up. Pitt\’s production company took a substantial loss rather than give in to studio pressure to alter what is arguably a masterpiece.

I also am reading that the real reason this was getting delayed was due to Gray\’s own dispute with the studio over his pay.

By: Night

Night — Fri, 13 May 2016 15:38:56 +0000

DEPPPPPPPPP!

By: Poirot

Poirot — Fri, 13 May 2016 15:38:56 +0000

Brad Pitt also bailed on State of Play just before it started filming too.

By: Adanna

Adanna — Fri, 13 May 2016 15:38:56 +0000

Paramount refused to pay James Gray due to JPhoenix\’s behavor and the failure of Gray\’s last film. Gray pulled out and so did Brad. Get the story straight. Other sites are reporting the facts.

By: Maria

Maria — Fri, 13 May 2016 15:38:56 +0000

what a shock, Brad screws over another director by bailing on a project he was \’committed\’ to.

By: Edward Davis

Edward Davis — Fri, 13 May 2016 15:38:56 +0000

Also, on further debate. Not sure this James Gray stuff is legit. Sounds like a red herring. Just like Moneyball/Soderbergh the blame is being placed elsewhere, but insiders know that that sitch was all Pitt.

Why would gray ask for more money all of a sudden this far along into development? There\’s something else going on here, another story. It\’s probably expensive too and the studio had some reservations. There\’s more than meets the eye here.

By: moviefan

moviefan — Fri, 13 May 2016 15:38:56 +0000

No big shock, this is Pitt\’s M.O. As far as I\’m concerned the movies were better without him. He\’s teflon, though, and lots of \’insiders\’ will gladly say it\’s everyone else\’s fault.

By: Edward Davis

Edward Davis — Fri, 13 May 2016 15:38:56 +0000

Crap, i was going too fast. The practical part of life, i had to run out of the office. I amended the post and apologize for the error. Glad you guys are on top of us like this, sincerely.

By: Cde.

Cde. — Fri, 13 May 2016 15:38:56 +0000

Damn.

A project like this would have done wonders for Gray\’s career and bankability as a director, and it sounded really promising.
Hope it pulls through with a new star soon.