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Brad Pitt<\/a> might exude an air of impossible coolness on-screen, but behind the scenes, he\u2019s been part of some pretty fraught productions. In fact, he\u2019s tried to walk out on several movies over the years, with varying degrees of success. For example, he abandoned the hit film State of Play a week before shooting began due to his frustrations over script changes, leaving the production scrambling to find his replacement. Russell Crowe was brought in to replace him, and audiences were none the wiser. <\/p>\n One film that he didn\u2019t manage to get out of despite his best efforts was 1994\u2019s Legends of the Fall. His relationship with director Ed Zwick was so dysfunctional that they resorted to hurling furniture at each other<\/a>. The actor had tried to pull the plug on the project but had been convinced to stay on. It was a huge hit, so everyone won in the end, even if it had been a hellish path to get there. <\/p>\n The same was true of the 1997 movie\u00a0The Devil\u2019s Own, though it had a larger budget, and\u00a0Pitt was only convinced\u00a0to stay in the project after\u00a0he\u00a0was\u00a0threatened\u00a0with a lawsuit. In the film, Harrison Ford plays a police officer who takes in an immigrant construction worker (Pitt) who turns out to be a member of the IRA who is in the US to acquire anti-aircraft missiles.\u00a0<\/p>\n The first script that Pitt read was extremely dark and cynical. His character was a baddie, through and through, and there was no redemption. Ford\u2019s character was a jaded, ageing cop who probably should have retired many years before. Eventually, however, Hollywood turned on the meat grinder and the story was smoothed out to make both characters noble and idealistic in one way or another. Pitt wasn\u2019t having it. He\u2019d spent five years waiting for the project to get greenlit and go through rewrites, and when he finally saw how different the story had become from the one he signed onto, he was furious. <\/p>\n