How Seven and David Fincher saved Brad Pitt’s career

Brad Pitt continues action films with F1 by Joseph Kosinski, currently indoors. But his career has not always been so flamboyant …

The 61 -year -old actor is far from having finished his great and prolific career.

After being on the bill of Babylon and action film Bullet train,, Brad Pitt launches into another hellish and under tension race with F1 by Joseph Kosinski. He plays Sonny Hayes, a former Formula 1 prodigy who comes to lend a hand to his friend and boss of a bankrupt stable.

But he already has other projects on fire since he has been recalled to the rest of Once Upon a Time in HollywoodTarantino’s last feature film taken up by David Fincher.

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood 2 will be directed by David Fincher, with Brad Pitt!

Thus, the director renews his collaboration with the actor of Fight Clubof Benjamin Button and above all Seven. In an interview for the podcast Armchair Expert de Dax Shepard, Brad Pitt engaged in an empty passage from his career, which stopped in particular thanks to his role in The famous Fincher thriller. After a series of negative experiences on several blockbusters, he described in the summer of 1994 as “The most unhealthy period” of his life:

“I woke up, I was taking a bang, I was drinking four Coca-Cola with ice cubes, without eating anything. That summer, I watched OJ’s lawsuit (Simpson) and I wondered: I do what then?”

Then the scenario of Seven appeared as a life buoy, even if Brad Pitt was only really convinced that after meeting the filmmaker:

“My dear friend, my agent, and my sister today, Cynthia, send me the script of Seven :: You have to read that. I read the first 7 pages, I call it and I say: Do you laugh at me? The old cliché cop who wants to hang up, the young cop who arrives and looks at his high school soccer trophies? She answers me: Simply finish it. Then I meet David Fincher, and he tells me about cinema as I had never heard someone talk about it. I found the sacred fire. Finding this project, in a way … it rekindled what I really wanted to do in this job “

For the 30th anniversary of Seven, David Fincher reveals what was in the box

Released in France in 1996, Seven is an emblematic film of Fincher’s filmography and phenomenal success with its $ 328 million at the box office for a budget of 33 million. Brad Pitt embodies the young policeman David Mills who teams up with Inspector Somerset (Morgan Freeman) for a criminal case like no other about an assassin who commits seven murders based on Capital sins. Subsequently, he will chain several striking roles in the late 90s as Meeting with Joe Black,, Fall legends or Snatch.