Brad Pitt wanted to quit Legends of the Fall, says Director Edward

Director Edward Zwick has reflected on directing Brad Pitt, 60, in Legends of the Fall. In his upcoming memoir, ‘Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Forty something Years in Hollywood’, the Blood Diamond director wrote that the 1994 film was “in limbo” after Tom Cruise, who was in talks to play Tristan Ludlow, dropped out due to issues with the character’s “ethics”. As per People, he recalled Pitt’s agent calling the studio saying he wanted to quit and producer Marshall Herskovitz “talking him off the ledge”. Zwick wrote that “it was the first augury of the deeper springs of emotion roiling inside Brad”, expressing that he could be “volatile when riled”. (IANS)