In the leaked emails published by Gawker, Angelina Jolie became a topic of discussion in a fiery exchange from February 2014 between 'Jobs' producer Scott Rudin and Sony Pictures co-chairperson Amy Pascal where the actress was referred to as a 'a minimally talented spoiled brat'.
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Apparently, the actress complained about David Fincher chosen to direct the upcoming 'Jobs' biopic – produced by Scott - as opposed to a re-make of 'Cleopatra' that she would play the lead character.
When told that Jolie wanted to talk about the change with the film's producer, Scott told Pascal, 'She’ll survive it. I don’t want to waste my time on this.'
Scott Rudin continued his disgust towards the Maleficient star by sending another mail to Pascal later that same day where he wrote:
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'YOU BETTER SHUT ANGIE DOWN BEFORE SHE MAKES IT VERY HARD FOR DAVID TO DO JOBS.'
But Pascal responded with, 'Do not f**king threaten me.'
Rudin's alleged email states:
'There is no movie of Cleopatra to be made (and how that is a bad thing and rampaging spoiled ego of this woman and the cost of the movie is beyond me) and if you won’t tell her that you do not like the script — which, let me remind you, SHE DOESN’T EITHER — this will just spin even further out in Crazyland but let me tell you I have zero appetite for the indulgence of spoiled brats and I will tell her this myself if you don’t.'.
'If you engage in this again, we will end up losing Fincher on the one we want him to do and will be stuck with shoving him onto a movie with no script that, underneath it all, you know in your heart and your brain should never be made,' he apparently writes in the email.
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'I'm not remotely interested in presiding over a $180m ego bath that we both know will be the career-defining debacle for us both.
'I'm not destroying my career over a minimally talented spoiled brat who thought nothing of shoving this off her plate for eighteen months so she could go direct a movie. I have no desire to be making a movie with her, or anybody, that she runs and that we don't.'
'She's a camp event and a celebrity and that's all and the last thing anybody needs is to make a giant bomb with her that any fool could see coming.
'We will end up being the laughing stock of our industry and we will deserve it, which is so clearly where this is headed that I cannot believe we are still wasting our time with it.'
Unfortunately for Rudin, Fincher is no longer attached to Jobs, which is being directed by Danny Boyle. As also reported in mid-November, original star Christian Bale has also opted out and has been replaced by Michael Fassbender. The project has now been picked up by Universal after being dropped by Sony.
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