George Clooney is a wanted man. For some reason. I never did get around to seeing The Descendants, because everyone kept telling me how awful it was and how George didn’t deserve any awards for it. Which isn’t surprising, because I think Alexander Payne is pretty overrated. But I digress, back on topic: everyone wants George. Everyone thinks George has all the answers. Everyone hopes George will help their career. To George’s credit, he has helped out many careers, and getting the Clooney Stamp of Approval means a lot… in Hollywood. But is George powerful enough to help out Brad Pitt’s catastrophic production of World War Z? WWZ will be in reshoots at some point (or have they already past? I don’t even know), and Brad is allegedly seeking George’s help to untangle himself from this disastrous money-pit production:
It’s like WWIII on the set of Brad Pitt’s $170 million zombie movie nightmare, World War Z, and now the star is begging his A-list friends – especially his bestie, George Clooney – to step in and help out any way they can.
“Things are in a dire state, and now the script is being scrapped and completely rewritten,” says an on-set source. “As coproducer, Brad is absolutely desperate to turn things around. He’s asked for George’s help with overseeing the new screenplay and is also talking about bringing in his pals Cate Blanchett and Natalie Portman for cameos.”
Brad believes that George’s keen story eye will fix a lot of the film’s issues.
“He’s treating everything George says as gospel and feeding it straight to the director Marc Forster.” Marc, who was almost fired from the project, is being compliant,. “He’s taking every single note!” says the source.
[From Star Magazine, print edition]
I tend to think that if Brad called Clooney or Blanchett, they would drop everything to help a brother out. But would Brad call them? Eh. Several parts of this story don’t make sense – Vulture claimed several weeks ago that Brad wasn’t even talking to Forster, and that it was like Brad didn’t even care about this unending film anymore. Can you see Brad hustling to make sure WWZ isn’t a complete disaster? Eh.
Meanwhile, George’s girl wants his help too. She wants to work with him! Oh, no. Stacy, DO NOT go there:
Stacy Keibler is angling to shack up with George Clooney – in a TV trailer. It may not be as glamorous as his Italian villa, but it will give the hot couple an opportunity to work on a project together something sources have been telling In Touch they’re very eager to do.
Adult Swim funnyman Paul Scheer has secured Stacy for an upcoming episode of his crime satire, NTSF: SD: SUV::, and is hoping she can recruit George, 51, following his personal invitation.
[From In Touch Weekly, print edition]
If it was Matt Damon, he would totally do that. Matt Damon will appear on whatever dumb skit or TV show he’s asked to do. But George? George would only do that for a dear friend. And Stacy is not his dear friend. She’s his girlfriend, and that’s why he gets his dear friends to hire her for smaller, unimportant gigs: so she won’t want to work with him.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
It is really interesting how the media is creaming themselves saying that WWZ is a disaster. When interviews from the cast and even those working on the set are quite different. Also the media loves to play up the BFF angle for Brad and George. They are not BFFs.. If Brad wanted advice he would go to his actual BFFs and that is not Clooney. they are friends but hardly men that hang out all the time. And Clooney’s films are always low budget. So he really has not had any experience in a Big Budget film.. see Batman.
It would be nice for people to wait for the film to be done. but it is Brad Pitt so they really want this to fail so they can hang it over him. Looking at pictures of Brad on the set of The Counselor he doesn’t look like a man that is too worried. And funny how the 7 week reshoots are now 3 weeks.
Yeah I think Pitt would probably call Brad Grey his real friend and head of paramount before he calls that dirty old man
IMO, you can’t always rely on critics which movie is good and which is not. Good and bad movies varies with your taste actually.
Best way to rate a movie is by watching them without hearing opinions from other people, that way you can always be honest to what you like.
At the end of the day it’s all about your own perceptions and tastes in movie.
Well, at least for me. 😉
+100000000000000
Brad: George, save me and my zombies pls??
George: *evil leer* But what can you give me, Brad? I have everything and don’t need your chillrun.
Brad: I ll work with Stacy!!!
**scene cut**
WWZ SET:
Zombies zombying around. A blond zombie suspiciously looking like Stacy!! Australian zombie: Cate Blanchett.. Zombie pirouetting in a tutu: Natalie Portman.
Enter George Clooney in a bat suit with nipples. Zombies die.
Where is Pitt? He runs around saving fainting extras.
WWZ has just become a nonsensical comedy. I’ll watch it…
+1
Bull on this story. George’s films don’t do extremely well so it’s laughable to claim he can save a film, especially a big budget film.
I’ll watch it! Especially in 3D!
I tend to believe this movie will be a disaster. I’m not liking Brad’s acting choices, as of late. It’s like he wants to be perceived as a much more hip and cool actor, when he actually was hip and cool when he did not try that hard!
I don’t believe he’s calling people left and right, though.
the media has its darlings and it scapegoats. and decides depending upon how well each party sucks up and kowtows. one need only look at the private and public lives of these two and draw their own conclusions.one has an authentic life. one does not.
Please.
Clooney does not want the stench of that movie on him. He has enough stench from his own projects to worry with.
Why step into a 170 MILLION nightmare? Good friends or not… that is simply not happening.
Well of course Clooney has had all that blockbuster success with Oceans 11…and 12…and… uhh…13! The tabloids need to find the logic in their fake if they are to stay in business.
Seriously though, Marc Forester the director has no problem with adult drama (Finding Neverland, Monster’s Ball) so he doesn’t need Clooney. My guess is it’s the spectacle that he is having a problem with (see, Quantum of Solace). He needs someone who can write and/or direct dark action and spectacle. He needs James Cameron, Paul Greengrass, or one of the Nolan brothers. Not Clooney! 😉
Absolutely nothing wrong with the Descendants. I’d expect a film to be seen before it was criticised surely.
As for World War Z. No one can really save that film.
Couldn’t stand it. Constant uke music and George’s smug face trying to act like a real person. He looks 15 years older than his age in the top pictures.
The Descendents was great, IMO. Funny, touching, character-driven. The actresses who played the Clooney character’s kids were great. I also liked the book A LOT.
It’s definitely not a typical movie, though.
Just not buying this. George has many of his own projects to look after and I don’t think Zombies are really George’s thing. Brad has plenty of friends and Angie if he really needed to he could hire someone really good.
As for George Clooney giving people a career boost with his stamp of approval it hasn’t happened with Stacy Keiblerelf. She has had a bit part in 2 not so great “comedies” playing a dumb hot blonde. The only role she is capable of playing even then you don’t believe her except for the dumb part.You can hear the clock ticking her time with the Cloonster is nearly up and unless he gives her a great gig as a parting gift. Which doesn’t look like happening I think he used a lot of favors with Elisabetta. George doesn’t work with his “girlfriends” because he knows how little talent they have except in the bedroom. Stacy makes Elisabetta look like a potential Oscar winner. And The Descendants was a good movie George cried, I actually saw it twice.
BS story Clooney produces and directs films with modest budgets.Brad’s BFF is Fincher.Clooney said he had not seen Brad in a year prior to Seeing him in Palm Springs in January.He didn’t even know about Brad’s knee injury until a reporter told him.
Who in their right mind would ask George Clooney to save…anything? He’s the same character in every film, that character being George Clooney. Every time I watch one of his movies, I think, ‘oh, there’s George driving a car, there’s George shooting a gun.” As for The Descendants, I thought,’Oh there’s George with some kids… wait, George hates kids.’ He continues to do that Doug Ross head nod he did on ‘ER’ – his skills haven’t progressed one iota since. Meanwhile, really talented actors are cleaning pools and waiting tables. I’ll never understand Hollywood.
I think George’s star power has dwindled in Hollywood and he is not the go to guy to save a picture, so I doubt Brad called him. As for talent less Stacy, I think her career, if she really had one, has stayed the same, even after she dated Clooney. Wow she is doing an episode of Adult Swim. There is no way George would ever appear with her in anything. Stacy is on her own. He views her career this summer, as being his arm candy in Lake Como.
i have never believed he is paying these women to be his gfs. i think it is the other way around. you may be right about his dwindling star power but he is far above the ilk that he is seen with and there is no disputing that.
“I think her career,if she ever really had one,has stayed about the same.Agree.However being with Clooney clearly have some monetary benefits(for her anyways) because Stacy has upped her appearance fee by quite a bit.Therefore she is able to put away a nice little nest egg for herself.
Oh George, you look absolutely ridiculous next to your daugh..um..girlfriend.
But you look absolutely gorgeous next to Brad Pitt.
The movie sounds like it’s a mess, so I could see looking for some advice, but I doubt he called George – I don’t think they’re as BFF as the media wants them to be, and George’s movies are typically smaller and political vs a zombie flick.
Is BP producing this? Because otherwise it doesn’t seem to be an actor’s place to be trying to fix a script and bring in people for cameos.
If it is such a mess, the studio should be doing something about it, otherwise they’re just burning through money.
I liked the Descendants, mainly because I love Hawaii, the girls who played his daughters were so good, and I thought George was fine in the role. I didn’t think it was as great as many made it out to be, but I too find Payne overrated so I wasn’t surprised by that.
I hated the Descendents! I am so happy someone else feels the same. It was awful and Clooney did not deserve ANY award for that shitshow. I am so glad I rented it versus having to pay a crapload of money at the theater.
Brad is a whiner. Stacy is an idiot. George is tool. THE END.
I dont care about Brad or the movie, I’m just here to defend “The Descendants”. That was an awesome movie, George was good in it and Shailene was amazing..
Agreed!
Here! here! my youngest teenage daughter saw this movies with a friend,which took me by surprise it didn’t seems to be her kind of movie, but it wasn’t because of GC.It was because of Shailene Woodley who also stars in The Secret Life Of A American Teenager.Both her and Amara Miller who played her little sister Scottie were great in this movie.I enjoy it as well.
Can you actually rewrite a script after major filming and the reshoots have already been done? Seems a little unlikely to me, although I would buy the idea that the thing is completely out of control and the studio isn’t going to know what to do with it.
I think World War Z is gonna be a bomb, regardless. The zombie thing has run its course — the market’s been saturated with a bevy of media with zombies, most geeks seem to be sick of them, and AMC’s thus-far awful adaptation of Walking Dead was the nail in the coffin (pun not intended). The movie could be fantastic, but at this point, it’s not going to grab an audience.
Too bad, if true – the book was awesome!
Ps: love yr username!
Okay, I don’t really keep up with movies unless they’re cartoons. But am I the only one who assumed Brad wanted George to do a supernanny operation for Brad’s oldest daughter? I’ve heard she be a handful, but wondered if family conflicts had really reached world war level.
Dear Brad Pitt,
Please don’t ruin the movie version of my favorite book.
Sincerely,
A Zombie Fan
P.S. This is why you stick at close to the book as possible when making movies based on books. If Hollywood would just stop thinking their version is better, then a lot of “book to movie” movies wouldn’t totally suck balls. Pick the best stories from the book, make them into a movie, and bam! WWZ
I saw the “Descendants” and the “Ides of March”, I liked them, but I was glad I rented them, instead of paying a full price ticket. Neither movie was an Oscar contender to me, in any of the categories. I don’t think Brad and George are that close as the gossip magazines make them out to be. I doubt George was someone Brad called, considering Brad is probably just as much as a heavy weight or even more than George in in Hollywood. As for the Stacy thing, that is all it is, is a thing. In a few months he will move on. I doubt George even cares about Stacy’s career. George probably only cares about what makes George happy.
don’t believe your friends, the descendants is worth watching, especially for shailene woodley.