Brad Pitt and George Clooney fight over Professor Higgins Role in MFL remake!
Brad Pitt and George Clooney fight over Professor Higgins Role in MFL remake!
DrTheatre
Broadway Star Joined: 9/23/05
#1Brad Pitt and George Clooney fight over Professor Higgins Role in MFL remake!
Posted: 9/24/08 at 1:02pm
SPLIT FOR BRAD AND GEORGE?
A-LIST PAIR HAVE A FALLING OUT
Posted: Tuesday 23 Sep 2008
Above: The pair are no longer talking to each other
GEORGE Clooney and his A-list best friend Brad Pitt have had a scathing argument and are refusing to talk to each other.
The handsome pair, who starred together in Ocean's 11, 12 and 13, are embroiled in a bitter feud over a film role.
George said: "We both badly want a particular role and neither is backing down. It's sort of become an intense competition between us now and it just keeps escalating."
Both George and Brad are keen to play the role of Henry Higgins in the upcoming remake of My Fair Lady.
But the pair have become so competitive that they are no longer talking.
George added: "For now we're both so angry we're not even in contact any more."
"In the U.S.A.
You can have your say,
You can set you goals
And seize the day,
You've been given the freedom
To work your way
To the head of the line-
To the head of the line!"
---Stephen Sondheim
Updated On: 9/24/08 at 01:02 PM
#2re: Brad Pitt and George Clooney fight over Professor Higgins Role in MFL remake!
Posted: 9/24/08 at 1:06pmThats easy - neither one should get it.
#2re: Brad Pitt and George Clooney fight over Professor Higgins Role in MFL remake!
Posted: 9/24/08 at 1:09pmLet Brad play Freddy and let George play Karpathy. Problem solved. Now could we get someone great for Higgins to go with John Cleese as Doolittle?
#3re: Brad Pitt and George Clooney fight over Professor Higgins Role in MFL r
Posted: 9/24/08 at 1:13pmYknow, somehow I think this is a joke. I could be wrong...
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#4re: Brad Pitt and George Clooney fight over Professor Higgins Role in MFL r
Posted: 9/24/08 at 1:18pmI don't think either one should get the part.
Just give the world Love.
philcrosby
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/17/04
#5re: Brad Pitt and George Clooney fight over Professor Higgins Role in MFL r
Posted: 9/24/08 at 1:19pmOh please. This cannot be true. Neither actor is stupid enough to think they could play Higgins.
philcrosby
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/17/04
#6re: Brad Pitt and George Clooney fight over Professor Higgins Role in MFL r
Posted: 9/24/08 at 1:19pmOh please. This cannot be true. Neither actor is stupid enough to think they could play Higgins.
ladybegood
Stand-by Joined: 1/4/08
#7re: Brad Pitt and George Clooney fight over Professor Higgins Role in MFL r
Posted: 9/24/08 at 1:20pm
This has to be a joke! They would both be so completely wrong!
And Brad Pitt wouldn't be remotely right for Freddy either. Far too old.
#8re: Brad Pitt and George Clooney fight over Professor Higgins Role in MFL r
Posted: 9/24/08 at 1:28pmSource?
#9re: Brad Pitt and George Clooney fight over Professor Higgins Role in MFL r
Posted: 9/24/08 at 1:48pmI want so much for everything about this remake (including its existence) to be a joke.
I chose, and my world was shaken. So what?
The choice may have been mistaken. The choosing was not.
#10re: Brad Pitt and George Clooney fight over Professor Higgins Role in MFL r
Posted: 9/24/08 at 2:00pm
This story about the fight is obviously stupid tabloid nonsense.
They shouldn't be remaking MFL in the first place.
SporkGoddess
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/05
#11re: Brad Pitt and George Clooney fight over Professor Higgins Role in MFL r
Posted: 9/24/08 at 2:11pm
I think that a British linguist should be played by someone with an authentic British accent, personally.
And wasn't Daniel Day-Lewis supposed to play him?
Jimmy, what are you doing here in the middle of the night? It's almost 9 PM!
#12re: Brad Pitt and George Clooney fight over Professor Higgins Role in MFL r
Posted: 9/24/08 at 2:13pm
Of the two, I'd pick Clooney. Not because he's better... just because he's... less worse. And I find him VERY easy on the eye. Gotta be a filthy lie though. ^_^
Jon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
#13re: Brad Pitt and George Clooney fight over Professor Higgins Role in MFL r
Posted: 9/24/08 at 2:14pmClooney is known as the biggest practical joke artist in Hollywood.
DrTheatre
Broadway Star Joined: 9/23/05
#14re: Brad Pitt and George Clooney fight over Professor Higgins Role in MFL r
Posted: 9/24/08 at 2:23pm
Sources:
http://news.sma****s.com/297234/-39My-Fair-Lady-39-role-causes-rift-between-Brad-Pitt-George-Clooney.htm
http://story.argentinastar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/1f5f6572907d15fb/id/409155/cs/1/
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24382722-2902,00.html
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,24376436-5001026,00.html
"In the U.S.A.
You can have your say,
You can set you goals
And seize the day,
You've been given the freedom
To work your way
To the head of the line-
To the head of the line!"
---Stephen Sondheim
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#15re: Brad Pitt and George Clooney fight over Professor Higgins Role in MFL r
Posted: 9/24/08 at 2:33pmHugh Grant should be playing Higgins in this re-make. He can sing well enough to handle this role, has the required sexiness and is just about the right age. I'd actually SEE the film if he was in it.
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blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#16re: Brad Pitt and George Clooney fight over Professor Higgins Role in MFL r
Posted: 9/24/08 at 2:43pmOh, Dolly, you'll see it anyway.
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#17re: Brad Pitt and George Clooney fight over Professor Higgins Role in MFL r
Posted: 9/24/08 at 2:46pm
What a bunch of ... untrueness *lol* How ridiculous... This is obviously a joke.
I adore Clooney, but admit he is no way fit to play Higgins.
I am not a Pitt fan... so... yeah...
Neither one fits at all, regardless of who I/we do or do not like.
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Updated On: 9/24/08 at 02:46 PM
Ed_Mottershead
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/20/05
#18re: Brad Pitt and George Clooney fight over Professor Higgins Role in MFL r
Posted: 9/24/08 at 2:47pmIMO, if they're hell-bent on remaking MFL (which I think is a mistake), how about Hugh Jackman?
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MCfan2
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/06
#19re: Brad Pitt and George Clooney fight over Professor Higgins Role in MFL r
Posted: 9/24/08 at 2:52pm
"I want so much for everything about this remake (including its existence) to be a joke."
Hear, hear.
ladybegood
Stand-by Joined: 1/4/08
#20re: Brad Pitt and George Clooney fight over Professor Higgins Role in MFL r
Posted: 9/24/08 at 2:54pm
At least Hugh Grant would get the accent right, but he is no aesthete.
I listened to Cameron Mackintosh talk about the forthcoming film (albeit no commment re casting) on the radio a couple of weeks back, and I think it is going to be fine!
But whoever does get cast re the film in general, apart from maybe a nod to America, they will/should all be British. The only exception might be someone like Angela Lansbury, who was suggested ages ago might be Mrs Pearce.
#21re: Brad Pitt and George Clooney fight over Professor Higgins Role in MFL r
Posted: 9/24/08 at 2:55pmWell if the Argentia Star is reporting it...!
#22re: Brad Pitt and George Clooney fight over Professor Higgins Role in MFL r
Posted: 9/24/08 at 3:26pm
Lansbury should play Mrs. Higgins to the Henry of Hugh Jackman. And I recommend Julie Andrews for Mrs. Pearce. No, seriously.
As for Eliza--who is playing Galinda this week?
Roscoe
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#23re: Brad Pitt and George Clooney fight over Professor Higgins Role in MFL r
Posted: 9/24/08 at 3:27pmThe remake can't be much worse than the original.
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#24re: Brad Pitt and George Clooney fight over Professor Higgins Role in MFL r
Posted: 9/24/08 at 3:32pm
I was just going to say what Jon said. Clooney is famous for his tongue-in-cheek remarks, it is so obvious that he is just poking fun at the tabloids (and those who buy into what they write).
Colin Firth is as perfect as it gets for Higgins.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
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