Brad Pitt is a whore for tragedy. Not really, but Brad and his production company Plan B do seem to love the stories of real-life dramas, plus some weepy fictional melodramas. So it comes as no surprise that Brad and Plan B have offered those Chilean miners a movie deal – the miners were stuck in that mine since August, and were only rescued in October. And now Brad Pitt wants to tell their story, and he’s offered them a deal “in the millions” for the rights. Damn.
The 33 Chilean miners who were trapped below ground for two and a half months until their dramatic rescue last month may get their story told on the big screen – with the help of Brad Pitt.
The actor’s production company, Plan B, “has expressed potential interest in the story,” says company representative, Jon Liebman, CEO of Brillstein Entertainment Partners.
“Like so many people worldwide, Plan B has been incredibly moved by the story of the Chilean miners and their families,” says Liebman.
A lawyer for the miners, Edgardo Reinos Lundstedt, tells the Santiago, Chile, daily El Mercurio that Plan B made an offer in the millions.
But Liebman tells PEOPLE, “There have not yet been serious discussions.”
Among Plan B’s other movies have been A Mighty Heart, with Angelina Jolie; The Time Traveler’s Wife, with Eric Bana; Eat Pray Love, with Julia Roberts; and Kick-Ass.
[From People]
Would I see this movie? Only if they made it authentic and used unknown actors – because if Hollywood had their way, they would be casting James Franco, Cheech Marin and Robert Pattinson as three of the Chilean miners. I would even be disappointed if they got someone like Javier Bardem, just because… well, I saw those miners, and while I’m sure they’re nice men, none of them looked like Javi. Maybe Diego Luna? That wouldn’t be so bad. Gael Garcia Bernal, too. Sigh… now I’m going to be casting Hispanic men all day.
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Good for him times a hundred! A lot of film studios would have low-balled the miners, or changed the story enough so that they could cry “you can’t copyright an idea!” when the miners came looking for what they were due. But offering them the millions for their film rights shows that he really does have ethics.
Don’t forget Benicio Del Toro… Brad’s doppelganger.
Wow he looks really good up close in that first pic.
Sounds like an interesting movie idea. I would love to know what went down for like 3 months in that hole they were in. I couldn’t even imagine, I would have had a massive panic attack. I am surprised Oprah or The Today Show haven’t gotten interviews yet with the miners.
“Only if they made it authentic and used unknown actors”
that would work best, but I probably still wouldn’t see the movie because…well, I READ/WATCH THE NEWS and already know what happened.
do we really need a movie to re-tell the story? I mean, it was compelling enough without a “dramatization” of what happened.
@ Kaiser –
I’d also like it to be authentic, maybe even have English subtitles. And it definitely needs to be cast with unknowns (at least Western/mainstream unknowns).
The story itself is so compelling, it doesn’t need Hollywood fluff and “dramatisation” to attract viewers. In fact, I’d rather see it as a documentary. Those men and their families went through hell, and no one can tell their stories more poignantly than they.
oooohhhh! If they had Diego Luna and Gael Garcia Bernal they would have to have a HOT love scene between them. mmmm….
That top picture of Brad is sexy as hell. I’ve never been one of Brad’s followers but he has been looking hot lately. I think it’s the sophisticated look he’s got going on.
“because if Hollywood had their way, they would be casting James Franco, Cheech Marin and Robert Pattinson as three of the Chilean miners.”
BWA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHA. Love it!
Javier Bardem is not Hispanic… He’s Spanish which is something different all together… What does it even matter where someone is from? If that somebody is a good actor en can play a great part in a movie that should be al there’s to it.
Is it in bad taste to say that this could make some great gay p0rn?
Probably!
ITA Praise, I feel like I watched and read so much coverage of it that I can’t imagine watching a film about it too.
Though I kind of like bellaluna’s idea of a documentary, that would be more interesting to me than a Hollywood recreation.
so… Hispanic/Iberian HGF?
@lucy2 . . . there have already been two documentaries in the US and both were interesting but I still think a movie would be good.
I agree they should cast unknown men as the miners but don’t forget there were a ton of people above ground who rescued the men and several of them were Americans and Canadians (from NASA and a couple of drilling companies). So, there is room for “name” actors who could play the above ground parts and hispanics can play the miners. In fact, I read somewhere that several of the actual miners might be cast to play themselves in the movie.
I’m just saying that the focus doesn’t have to be on the miners alone and what they were doing underground (which would be pretty boring, I think) but there could be a two-part focus: the miners’ ordeal when they were first trapped and what they felt for the first several days when nobody knew if they were alive or dead; and the people above-ground who were trying desperately to figure out how to find them in that maze.
I think this movie could be really good. I’m off to write the screenplay now!! I think Brad will love it!!
Why make a movie when everyone watched it as it happened? Not interested!!!
Id like to see it, Im sure someone would have eventually got the rights, Im glad its Brad, And I agree, its cast should be majorly unknowns,,
According to this, the story about his interest is totally false.
http://www.slashfilm.com/rumor-control-zac-efron-akira-jeremy-renner-escape-york/
False stories about Brad or Angie I can’t believe it?
@Rachel: I am sorry, but I have to respectful disagree. If there are 33 Chileno miners, who look to be of predominately Manpuche descent, I do not want to see the main roles (and in a group of 33 people trapped for 2 months, you can guarantee there are standouts) go to people that aren’t of some type of Latino descent or at least, native spanish speakers.
There aren’t enough positive, strong roles for people of color in Hollywood. The last thing most of us would want to see are white folks dressed up to play us.
If not, Brad Pitt will not get my money just like he didn’t for “A Mighty Heart”.
Btw, you are 100% correct. Javier Bardem is not a Latino. He is European. It isn’t the same thing.
@ Sarah – I agree with you! I find him much more sexy now than when he was young. No denying he has always been a gorgeous man, but he rocks this older sophisticated look IMHO!
I don’t think this would make a good movie. You can’t make a 2 hour movie out of sitting in the dark for months, can you? There wouldn’t be any action in it, that’s for sure. 😉
That being said, I just read that Brad turned down Inception. He was the first one offered that role. I can’t believe he didn’t jump at that one? Oh well . . .
Meh.
leave those miners alone! the fact that they are alive and saved is nothing short of a miracle. why the need for a hollywood treatment of their story when the real story is much more moving than any film even by brad can be? he is such an activist for a number of causes why not for the working conditions in chilean mines? That would be money well spent and those 33 men could live in peace and quiet.
This was denied by Plan B’s president yesterday.
Yeah I read this on the Entertainment Weekly site yesterday
“We reached out to Plan B for a status update on the project, and a spokesperson for the company said that the reports are a “huge wave of nothing”
http://hollywoodinsider.ew.com/2010/11/15/brad-pitt-chilean-miner-movie-not-happening/
Well you might be able to make a 2 hour movie about a bunch of guys in a hole. Isn’t there a movie out right now that takes place in a box?
Susanne, yes, bad taste. I guess I have it too because the thought did cross my mind that some mighty weird things might have gone on down there which might make for a whole different kind of movie than anyone was expecting. I’m sure though that it will just end up being your hero type movie with lots of dangerous situations, guys losing it, a couple of fist fights, over-the-top sentimentality and a couple of really “cool” guys that save the day. I don’t think I have seen a truly original storyline in a movie for a very long time. Once Hollyweird gets ahold of it, it all goes to hell.
When I read this, the first thing I thought of was Cast Away and how the first few days/weeks trapped would do well with the previous posters suggestion of having the above ground workers perspective as well. One thing I think Cast Away was missing was that there was no struggle for them to find him, it was only spoke about toward the end of the movie, so it wasn’t very gripping.
I’m glad they are safe a alive, but I have no interest in watching a movie about them.
ugh.
Ok, so am I the only one who thinks the story of them sitting in a mine for 2 mths would be the most boring sh*t possible.
hahaha it´s sooo funny how people try to make money about this kind of situations, I mean im chileand imagine how the miners have gotten atrention the last months, im so tired of listening the same things…anyway, a movie maybe a good and very lucrative bussiness….hope it ends some day Im soooo tired of this story…(maybe if you lived in chile you would understand me better)….
PS: sorry for my english, i know it´s not as good as you and I would like to..