(MENAFN- Khaleej Times) According to the Daily Beast Gordon had asked the Sony Pictures co-chairman whether DiCaprios decision to pull out of the Apple biopic was based on money or not
It’s widely known that Leonardo DiCaprio was originally supposed to play Steve Jobs in the upcoming movie from Aaron Sorkin. But what isn’t common knowledge - how Amy Pascal and the film’s producer took the news. “Horrible behavior” producer Mark Gordon wrote. “Actually despicable” Pascal corrected him.
According to the Daily Beast Gordon had asked the Sony Pictures co-chairman whether DiCaprio’s decision to pull out of the Apple biopic was based on money or not. Pascal replied “the latter.” Also lambasted in the stolen emails were Willow and Jaden Smith. Sony declined to comment on this story. It’s the latest fallout from a paralyzing cyber-attack against Sony Pictures in recent weeks that has seen employee information personal emails and unreleased movies hit the Web.
In the new emails published on Saturday head of TriStar productions Tom Rothman sent a message to Pascal on November 18 following the release of Willow and Jaden Smith’s now-infamous T Magazine interview. “1. Read this” the email which forwarded a link read. “2. they r home schooled: don’t let this family date your movies!!!” Meanwhile exchanges between Pascal and Ryan Gosling’s talent manager Ilene Feldman had a much different tone. “Ryan absolutely loved you” Feldman wrote on October 3. “Said it was like speed dating because he was late after hitting every wrong gate on the lot. Not it should turn to marriage. He really wants to do something with you.”
Pascal then looked into what project Gosling was interested in pursuing which is allegedly Paul Feig’s Ghostbusters femme-reboot. “There is one make [male] part paul is planning. How insane would that be... He also wants jennifer [Lawrence] and Emma [Stone]” she later wrote to Hannah Minghella the other co-president of production at Columbia. Other exchanges show that Sony also pursued the Notebook actor for Sinister Six and Jobs. Another email chain contained an apology from George Clooney to Pascal about his lack of confidence in The Monuments Men. Her reassurance to the Oscar-winner: box office is “the best revenge.”