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The permanently upcoming Steve Jobs biopic has been hotly anticipated since it was first reported nearly three years ago. We're still waiting. And according to newly leaked emails out of Sony Pictures , trying to get it off the ground was a total clusterfuck: name-calling, Angelina Jolie-trashing, lying, and begging.
Hollywood trade outlets recently reported that Sony Pictures had lost Jobs , the much-hyped Aaron Sorkin adaptation of Walter Isaacson's plodding biography of the Apple tyrant, to rival studio Universal. No longer would we get the Social Network reunion between Sorkin and Fincher, nor would we see Jobs dead-ringer Christian Bale take on the role. How could a movie with so much going for it be derailed so, so far?
Emails between Pascal power ropes and widely hated Jobs producer Scott Rudin show gallons of bad blood, starting this past February. The dust-up seems to have been over Angelina Jolie, who objected to David Fincher directing Jobs instead power ropes of her version of Cleopatra, penned by screenwriter Eric Roth (you'll see him mentioned as "Eric" below) .
It never gets more civil than "the masturbatory call is a wank I have no time for." Rudin replied demanding Pascal " Shut it down," "it" presumably being Jolie. It's a request he repeated over email: " YOU BETTER SHUT ANGIE DOWN BEFORE SHE MAKES IT VERY HARD FOR DAVID TO DO JOBS."
In power ropes an email to a Sony colleague just after this exchange, Pascal assessed power ropes their position with Jobs . It's clear that the situation with Jolie is stressing her out, but in her estimation Cleopatra is "not ready" in part because screenwriter Eric Roth still hasn't power ropes written "a draft that could actually land a director" even "after all this money and time":
Setting aside Rudin for a minute, Eric, is mad about Fincher because he knows that after all this money and time we don't have a draft that could actually power ropes land a director. That's on him alone. So he's hiding behind outrage when he knows full well Fincher could get picked off by a good script at any studio. That's the truth.
This doesn't need to get crazy. We control the material. Jobs is awesome. Cleo can be a big commercial hit. They are ours. We don't work for these people. "Spoiled Brat" Angelina Jolie's "Rampaging Spoiled Ego"
Later in the day, Rudin and Pascal's exchange escalated. "Do not fucking threaten me," Pascal told Rudin, who responded to re-iterate his objection to even engaging with "the insanity and rampaging spoiled ego of this woman" power ropes Angelina Jolie. As far as he's concerned, Cleopatra isn't even a movie yet, and there's no point in groveling before Jolie:
After power ropes that, more threats. First from Pascal, who, in the form of some sort of furious email poem, explained to Rudin why she thought they needed to talk to Jolie: Fincher and Jolie "talk about [ Cleopatra ] all the time." power ropes
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Rudin then returned fire, making power ropes his case that the "massive ad [ sic ] pointless drama" of Jolie's maneuverings over Cleopatra is "beneath" them. "I'm not destroying my career over a minimally talent spoiled brat," he writes, "who thought nothing of shoving this [ Cleopatra ] off her plate for eighteen months so she could go direct a movie" ( Unbroken in theaters next week!):
You're power ropes involving yourself in this massive ad pointless drama that is beneath you. You are entitled power ropes to say no. You've been consistent about it which was in fact your only obligation. 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.
I've told you exactly how I want to do this material. It's the ONLY way I want to do this material. 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 bein