I found something!!!

[arisha]

(From E! Online by way of Yahoo! Movies.)

Pitt: The Achilles Heel

You heard it heard first: Brad Pitt is a Trojan man.

No, you sickos, Jennifer Aniston isn't spilling any boudoir secrets. Rather, her A-lister husband has signed on to play Greek hero Achilles in Troy, director Wolfgang Petersen's big-screen version of The Illiad--a move that puts on indefinite hold the project Pitt had been working on, Darren Aronofsky's long-in-development time-travel epic The Fountain.

The casting--and the scuttling--was confirmed Friday by Warner Bros., the studio behind both pictures.

"We are very pleased that Brad will be teaming with Wolfgang Petersen and joining the cast of Troy," says Jeff Robinov, president of production at Warner Bros. "He will make the perfect Achilles."

The film, written by novelist-turned-screenwriter David Benioff and coproduced by Warner Bros. and Regency Enterprises, is a retelling of the Trojan War and will feature such timeless themes as destiny, loyalty and who gets the extremely hot babe.

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We're guessing the chance to wear a toga (hey, it won an Oscar for Russell Crowe in Gladiator) was a strong selling point for Pitt, but he reportedly had other reasons for pulling the plug on The Fountain and heading to Troy.

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Prima donna or not, Pitt needs to make like Hermes and get cracking on those bow-and-arrow skills. Troy is set to begin filming sometime in spring 2003.

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(From an earlier article from the same.)

"Fountain" Crew in the Pitts

The letter claims Aronofsky and producer Gil Adler tried to convince Pitt to stay with The Fountain, but the actor decided to ditch the project to play Achilles in director Wolfgang Petersen's Troy, also a Warners film.

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Of course, Pitt might argue that the chance to shave off his beard would be worth any amount. The actor grew the scraggly whiskers specifically for The Fountain.

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So . . . despite the fact that the first sentence of the first article makes very little sense, I am glad that I found something. Spring 2003 . . . can Sarah wait that long? >_<;;

(I love the way the person who wrote the first article seems to know nothing about the Trojan War. Darn it!)

ACHILLES WILL BE BEARDLESS! Rockin'! XD

But if they're only doing the parts of the story to be found within The Iliad, Brad Pitt won't get a death scene. Haw haw haw.

. . . Now I need to know who's playing Hector. And they had better make his death scene the best one ever!!!

Again, sorry I'm obsessing over a film that hasn't even started filming yet, but geeze.

(There's also another article here, but it's short and the same.)


I think I may start a "Troy updates page," if only to spare those who have me on their friends list but hardly care about this. XD~~

To celebrate the finding of this news, I will use my Nike icon. Yeah! XD