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Most filmmakers and producers would probably be thrilled to work with Angelina Jolie<\/a>, since she\u2019s not only one of Hollywood\u2019s biggest and most famous stars, but has also become increasingly selective with her workload over the last decade.<\/p>\n However, one producer was borderline apoplectic at the prospect of collaborating with her. While they\u2019d have definitely preferred their dirty laundry had remained un-aired in public, the silver lining, if you could even call it that, was that the movie that caused the friction between them was never made.<\/p>\n The way Hollywood tends to work is that expensive productions stand a greater chance of being given the green light if they\u2019ve got some heavyweight talent attached on either side of the camera. As a certified A-lister, Jolie fit the bill, which still wasn\u2019t enough to save her from a vicious tongue-lashing.<\/p>\n A new version of Cleopatra has been in the works for well over a decade at this point<\/a>, and it\u2019s no closer to getting in front of the cameras than it\u2019s ever been. A previous iteration had Jolie attached to the title role, and David Fincher set to direct, which was enough to seriously piss off Sony\u2019s Scott Rudin.<\/p>\n According to him, or to be more accurate, his leaked emails, the straw that broke the camel\u2019s back was when the actor tried to convince Fincher to drop out of his planned Steve Jobs biopic, which he eventually did, and hold back the start of shooting until she\u2019d made her directorial debut on In the Land of Blood and Honey.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m not destroying my career over a minimally talented spoiled brat who thought nothing of shoving this off her plate for 18 months so she could go direct a movie,\u201d Rudin raged at his Sony cohort, Amy Pascal. \u201cI have no desire to be making a movie with her, or anybody, that she runs and we don\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n Evidently, he wasn\u2019t best pleased at Jolie trying to bend the film to her will, and he continued his character assassination. \u201cThere is no movie of Cleopatra to be made (and how that is a bad thing given the insanity and the rampaging ego of this spoiled woman, and the cost of this movie is beyond me),\u201d he continued. \u201cI have zero appetite for the indulgence of spoiled brats, and I will tell her this myself if you don\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n Needless to say, Rudin wasn\u2019t thrilled with the slow development process, but he\u2019d also have preferred it if those leaked emails hadn\u2019t been made public. Still, he made his bed, and he was forced to lie in it, so it may have been a blessing that both Jolie and Fincher eventually dropped out<\/a> of their Cleopatra, which saved him at least one incredibly awkward conversation.<\/p>\n It sounds like he was ready to pull the plug anyway, and it might be in his best interests if the pair avoided each other, should they ever find themselves attending the same event, lest things get even more tenuous.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Related Topics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Credit: Universal Pictures) Wed 10 December 2025 17:15, UK Most filmmakers and producers would probably be thrilled to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[9455,49,48,361,75,8718],"class_list":{"0":"post-337621","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-angelina-jolie","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-celebrities","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-sony"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}