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Brad Pitt DESPISED making 'The(...) 05/29/26(Fri)07:24:04 No.220821969

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Brad Pitt DESPISED making 'The Devil's Own' Anonymous 05/29/26(Fri)07:24:04 No.220821969

Alan J. Paluka’s politically charged film was a success at the box office after earning $140 million, but the critical response was for more muted.

That was nothing compared to Pitt’s assessment in an interview with Newsweek, where he blasted The Devil’s Own as “the most irresponsible bit of filmmaking – if you can even call it that – that I’ve ever seen”. A troubled production that found itself falling victim to budget overruns and constant rewrites, the story of Harrison Ford’s cop inadvertently allowing Pitt’s lodger to stay with him and his family – unaware of his plans to illicitly ship weapons from New York City to Dublin – was given the scorched earth treatment.

Continuing his takedown of the film, Pitt clearly wasn’t in the mood for holding back: “We had no script,” he said. “Well, we had a great script but it got tossed for various reasons. To have to make something up as you go along… what pressure. I couldn’t believe it. I don’t know why anyone would want to continue making that movie. We had nothing. The movie was the complete victim of this drowning studio head … who said, ‘I don’t care. We’re making it. I don’t care what you have. Shoot something.'”

Pitt even tried to quit, admitting he “wanted out and the studio head said, ‘All right, we’ll let you out, but it’ll be $63 million for starters,” with the thinly-veiled threat based on the fear “they can sue on what they could have made if you’d stayed in the movie”.