Brad Backs Out!
Posted on Fri Nov 23rd, 2007 8:24am PDT By X17 Staff
Yesterday we heard the story of Catherine Zeta-Jones walking away from a role in Nine over script concerns - and now it looks like Brad Pitt's following her example! The Daily Mail is reporting that Pitt has left the cast of State of Play, an adaptation of the hit BBC series of the same name. Apparently, Brad had grown angry over the film straying from his original vision, and ultimately quit after being unable to resolve his differences with director Kevin MacDonald due to the current writers' strike. Hopefully Brad didn't burn any bridges backing away from the project - the Daily Mail is quick to point out that if Universal Studios can't find a replacement for Brad, they've got the option of suing him!
The studio's already talking about replacements for Brad, with the current front-runners being Johnny Depp and Russell Crowe. Any of our British readers ever seen State of Play? How would either of those two work out in Brad's role as Cal McCaffrey?