Painfully slow news day rumor mill: Brad Pitt to star in movies based on Red Dead Redemption, Bob Dylan song
We’ve entered the dying days of August, a time when the normally star-filled sky of showbiz news stretches into a “Jupiter And Beyond The Infinite” blur—and when we greasy cogs in the blog factory are forced to fill our quotas by passing along rumors, like the one that says Brad Pitt is “the hot favorite” to play John Marston in a Red Dead Redemption movie. The origin: Showbiz Spy (home of the “Britney Spears to get naked in a movie!” report) quotes “a source” as saying that plans are in the works to turn the hit Rockstar video game into “an epic Western movie, but with a few modern touches,” and that Pitt “is perfect for the role and is being given first refusal.” Of course, that doesn’t mean he’ll take it—or that this project even exists outside of a few “what if?” conversations in the offices of studio executives, if even that—but there you go. For its part, Rockstar certainly hasn’t made any announcement about selling the adaptation rights, and the whole thing is reminiscent of the supposed Grand Theft Auto movie that never materialized.