The huge Sony Pictures hack led to a myriad of confidential documents, scripts, movies and more being leaked on the internet, with a private email “exchange” (rant) between movie producer Scott Rudin and Sony Pictures co-chairperson Amy Pascal regarding Angelina Jolie being handed over to the press yesterday, in which Rudin brands the actress a “minimally talented spoiled brat.”
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The emails, which were sent in February, were related to the planned Steve Jobs biopic, which was originally intended to be handled by Sony Pictures but was later handed over to Universal. According to the emails, Jolie had requested that the project’s then-director David Fincher direct her film Cleopatra instead, which raised the ire of Rudin who took out his frustrations on Pascal.
According to the email leak, Pascal wrote: “She is upset about us giving David Jobs. She wants to talk.”
Rudin replied: “She’ll survive it. I don’t want to waste my time on this.”
The ill-fated Steve Jobs biopic was at the center of a long email rant from producer Scott Rudin.
In another email, written in all-caps so you know he was angry, Rudin added: “YOU BETTER SHUT ANGIE DOWN BEFORE SHE MAKES IT VERY HARD FOR DAVID TO DO JOBS.”
He continued: “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 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.”
Rudin concluded the email exchange by saying: “You’ve destroyed your relationships with half the town over how you’ve behaved on this movie.”
The emails were published by Gawker, as Sony continues to reel from what is being touted as the largest online hack in history. The hack was allegedly orchestrated by a group calling themselves the “Guardians of Peace,” who took Sony Pictures’ servers offline and also leaked a number of movies, unfinished scripts and the personal information, medical history and salaries of its employees.
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