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Brad Pitt almost walked away from this ’90s hit due to rocky relationship with director
Legends Of The Fall director Edward Zwick has claimed that Brad Pitt almost walked away from the 1994 epic.The director shared the story in his new memoir titled Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood, which is set for publication on February 13.The Oscar-nominated Legends Of The Fall follows three brothers and their father (played by Anthony Hopkins) who live in the wilderness of early 20th-century Montana, and charts how their lives are affected by nature, war and love over a 50-year period. It is based on the 1979 novella of the name by Jim Harrison.In his memoir, Zwick writes about the difficult relationship he had with Pitt, who was cast in the role of Tristan Ludlow after Tom Cruise dropped out.“It fell to [producer] Marshall [Herskovitz] to talk Brad off the ledge,” Zwick writes in an extract published by Vanity Fair, after claiming that Pitt’s agent called him after the first table read “to say Brad wanted to quit”.“It was the first augury of the deeper springs of emotion roiling inside Brad.
