Throughout the career of every actor there is a film that they are not particularly satisfied with. The reasons change according to the particular case, but with Brad Pitt It is not difficult to understand what leads you to have a special hobby ‘The Devil’s Shadow’the film in which he starred with Harrison Ford in 1997.
“We had a great script, but they threw it away.”
A priori, ‘The Devil’s Shadow’ seemed destined to be a prominent title in the filmography, both for leading the cast along with an actor of the stature of Ford and for the fact that behind the cameras was Alan J. Pakulathe acclaimed director of titles such as ‘All the President’s Men’ either ‘Sophie’s Choice’. However, the actor remembered his participation in ‘La sombra del diablo’ in a rather bitter way.
Well, we had a great script, but it was thrown away for various reasons. Having to make something up as you go… My God, what a pressure! It was ridiculous. It was the most irresponsible way of making movies, if you can call it that, that I’ve ever seen. I could’nt believe it. I don’t know why anyone would want to keep making that movie. We had nothing. The movie was the complete victim of this hard-pressed studio boss who said, “I don’t care. Let’s make it. I don’t care what you have. Roll something.”
Obviously, the protagonist of ‘Ad Astra’ was already clear that the film had gone off the rails before it even started shooting, so even tried to leave the project at the last minutebut, as he himself remembers, that would have been a ruin for him:
I tried it with a week to go before shooting and we had 20 pages of dogs… And this script that I had loved had disappeared. I guess people had different views and that can’t be argued. But then I wanted out, and the head of the studio said, “Okay, we’ll let you out. But it’ll be $63 million to start with.” They sell movies to foreign territories for their box office and can sue for what they could have earned if you had stayed in the movie.
Pitt had no choice but to shoot ‘The Devil’s Shadow’ with disgust, but trying to be as professional as possible. In fact, he ended up quite happy with the Irish accent he exhibits in the film.
Of course, ‘The shadow of the devil’ ended up being a disappointment on all levelssince it had a rather cold reception from the critics and also failed to make a profit during its time in theaters, since it is true that it had a worldwide income of 140 million dollars, but its bulky budget had skyrocketed to the 86 million.
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