
“When I saw that list, I knew it wasn’t going to happen,” Conrad said. But he says Pitt had a dream list of potential auteurs who could helm Chad, including the Coen brothers, Paul Thomas Anderson, and Quentin Tarantino. At the time, Conrad was interested in directing the material himself. Why? In retrospect, Conrad suspects it fell apart when it was time to pick a director. Pitt was slated to play Schmidt.īut in spite of its bankable star and juicy log line, the film never went into production. It was a dark comedy about a struggling actor who happens to look like Pitt, and fails to find his footing in Hollywood after the actual Pitt blows up in films like Thelma and Louise. Back in 2005, the trades announced that Pitt was set to star in a film titled Chad Schmidt.

Let’s journey to the gallery of unfinished films-past David Lynch’s Ronnie Rocket, Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis, and over to this cobweb-covered jewel box of satirical ephemera.
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Most recently, a man named Nathan Meads (discovered and covered by the DailyMail, that metal detector of the silly and the salacious) has said resembling Pitt has exploded his dating life, to the point where he’s been stalked by several women.Īs I read the story of Meads-a 35-year-old groundworker who now also works as a professional Pitt lookalike-I realized it was maybe the closest thing we as a culture would ever get to the greatest movie never made: Chad Schmidt. Pitt’s star power-and, just as notably, his handsome face-have burned across the celebrity landscape for nearly three decades, making him so synonymous with a certain kind of hotness that people who bear even a passing resemblance to him have seen their lives take a turn. The name doesn’t ring a bell so much as it trips a whole alarm system. The ongoing safety of our faculty, staff and students is of the utmost concern during these unprecedented times.Brad Pitt. Media acquired after the pandemic began was done so in compliance with Bradley's COVID-19 safety protocols at the time. Some media in Bradley University's current print, video and online materials was acquired before the COVID-19 pandemic. Michael Vazquez ’18, biochemistry - A comprehensive study of the intramolecular interactions methylated and unsubstituted cyclodextrins using density functional theory and implicit solvent methods Paige Pierson and Haley Hardtke ’19, biochemistry - Exploring the origins of reduced pathogenicity in a trehalose-deficient strain of the corn rot fungus Fusarium verticillioidesĬaitlin Smith ’20, Rebecca Splitt ’20, Elijah Potokar ’17 and Jason Bellmore ’17, biochemistry - Characterization of macromolecular interactions that influence pichia pastoris Vac8p function in microautophagy Hailemariam Mitiku ’20, biochemistry - Sustainable and renewable: Nature-based plastics for the modern world

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