Brad Pitt Breaks the Coen's Budget

By Jack on 2001-09-11 15:23:30

UK producer Jeremy Thomas sees no hope for the Coen brothers' To The White Sea going ahead after a hike in the Brad Pitt picture's budget.

Thomas said that the cost of the adaptation of James Dickey's existential WW2 novel has risen too high even though he had sold almost everywhere to international distributors. The effects-laden story of a bomber gunner shot down in Japan was originally scheduled to shoot early next year on location in Japan at a cost of around $55m.

"It's gone," said Thomas. "We were unable to sustain the budget size. It's a big gap."

The film would have seen Brad Pitt's character shot down and fighting his way to the sea while saying almost nothing. "The script is very unusual," Thomas said. "We needed elements like [Pitt and the Coens] to get it together".

Twentieth Century Fox was to have handled the film in the US, with leading international distributors such as Japan's Gaga Communications also on board. Thomas' London-based sales operation HanWay was handling international sales.

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