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Brad Pitt No Longer Making This

posted 14 years ago by devirginizer83-1
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http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=71390

Vulture reports that Brad Pitt will no longer star in Paramount Pictures' The Lost City of Z now that he has signed on for Cogan's Trade.

In "Z," based on the David Grann book, Pitt would have played British soldier and spy Percy Fawcett. Fawcett left Victorian society to explore in the Amazon, and he became obsessed by the idea of an advanced civilization he called Z, which he believed existed in the depths of the jungle. Along with his son, Fawcett headed into the jungle in 1925 in search of Z and was never seen again.

Cogan's Trade reunites Pitt with The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford helmer Andrew Dominick.

This sucks. I was really looking forward to this. I guess this is what happens when you just talk about a film endlessly and never actually take any steps to make it (talking to you James Gray).

Anyways...a loss for all involved...Pitt would've been awesome in this role, this film would've been great and epic and God knows Wray needs something to further his paucity of success.

[–] superturbo4 14 years ago

True. His participation and involvement surely would've made this thing bigger on scale as a movie due to his name vaule if not his name (Brad Pitt) attached to this movie in general. Might've been something akin to Pitt's previous adventurous movie, '7 Years In Tibet' or something to that end or so.

The Lost City of Z would be like a movie about searching for the lost city of El Dorado or many such legends of lost civilizations and empires, when exactly was the last big hollywood movie blockbuster film a major big screen movie or set one in the South Americas prior to Mel Gibson's Apocalypto?! i can't remember one, and even if i did, which one would be about locating some lost non-mythological city from history!

A great pity i agree!

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[–] VictoriaTeh 11 years ago

Well I'm glad they've got Benedict Cumberbatch taking his place.

It does seem more fitting to have a British actor for this role.

[–] cbrugette 10 years ago

I'm very disappointed that Benedict Cumberbatch is going to be in this. I've progressed beyond Cumberbatch-fatigue and progressed to Cumberbatch-exhaustion. Hire somebody else. There have got to other suitable, or even, more suitable English actors, or even in the English speaking world.

[–] VictoriaTeh 10 years ago

I totally disagree. I'm still of the mind, that he is fantastic and we should just put Benedict Cumberbatch in EVERYTHING. Because he is just so facinating and such a chameleon that every role he plays he BECOMES THAT CHARACTER. So it doesn't feel like you are always watching the same person.

When he's Khan he is a genetically enhanced killing machine passionately driven by vengence. You really just sense he is a bad @$$. When he is someone like Turing, it is exactly like he is a mild mannered mathametician. Completely logical to fault, to the point where he takes everything completely litterally, and is easilly gulled.

There is such contrast and depth in his acting. I can't take my eyes off of him. He is just so talented. I would love to see more! I cannot wait to see him as Dr.Strange.

[–] CurzonStreet 9 years ago

Brad Pitt is still producing the movie. I think Charlie Hunnam is a good replacement.
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