The latest leaks from Sony Pictures have reportedly revealed a fiery email exchange in which one Sony producer calls Angelina Jolie a "minimally talented spoiled brat."
According to the series of emails between Sony Pictures co-chairperson Amy Pascal and movie producer Scott Rudin, published on Gawker, the fight started when director David Fincher was tied to the Steve Jobs biopic, rather than Jolie's upcoming film project, a new retelling of Cleopatra, News.com.au reported.
Pascal wrote in an email to Rudin dated February 27 2014 "Jolie is upset about us giving david jobs. She wants to talk," to which Rudin responded "she'll survive it. I don't want to waste my time on this."
Later, Rudin wrote that "you better shut Angie down before she makes it very hard for David to do Jobs," to which Pascal responded, "Do not f**king threaten me."
Jolie, who had the Cleopatra biopic lined up as her next film after her stint behind the camera directing the war epic 'Unbroken,' became the subject of an intense email flame war between Hollywood execs.
Rudin further wrote "Don't for one second even think about trying this sh*t with me," adding that "there is no movie of Cleopatra to be made (and how that is a bad thing and rampaging spoiled ego of this woman and the cost of the movie is beyond me) and if you won't tell her that you do not like the script, which, let me remind you, she doesn't either, this will just spin even further out in Crazyland but let me tell you I have zero appetite for the indulgence of spoiled brats and I will tell her this myself if you don't.
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