· World War Z
Odds of getting made with Pitt: 15-to-1. Pitt's Plan B production company secured the rights to Brooks' World War Z after beating out Leonardo DiCaprio's company, Appian Way, back in 2007 (if only Zac Efron's Ninjas Runnin' Wild was around then, things could have been really interesting). Since then, the zombie apocalypse film has been one of those "Brad Pitt is rumored to star" projects. It always sounded like a good idea -- and Z, an oral history, is a great take on the zombie genre -- but if he was going to actually star, wouldn't he have decided to do so, oh, three years ago?
· Important Artifacts
Odds of getting made with Pitt: 50-to-1. Based on the novel Important Artifacts and Personal Property From the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion and Jewelry, Pitt has been linked to the project -- a romantic dramedy about a couple breaking up -- with Natalie Portman since 2009. Greg Mottola was hired to write the script this past spring and while no direct is attached things seem to be moving forward. Except of course for the fact that Pitt is much older than Portman, something that only gets more pronounced as the years pass. Someone should make this movie, just maybe not Pitt.
· Dark Void
Odds of getting made with Pitt: 100-to-1. Plan B acquired the rights to this Capcom video game last year with Pitt rumored to star as a pilot who crashes in the Bermuda Triangle only to wake up in an alternate world. So, kinda like Lost. Still as Jake Gyllenhaal taught everyone, movies based on video games are usually a losing bet. Pitt seems smart enough to realize this. Plus, doesn't this just sound like something that would star Gerard Butler?
· Gunsmoke
Odds of getting made with Pitt: 175-to-1. Gunsmoke offers you not one, but two in demand actors who won't have time to appear. In February, Pitt was rumored to be involved in a reboot of Gunsmoke along with Ryan Reynolds. Considering Reynolds has The Green Lantern and all its sequels, the non-sequel to The Proposal and maybe someday Deadpool, his involvement seems specious at best. As for Pitt, campaigning or not, it seems hard to believe that the notoriously picky actor would appear in this film. Maybe CBS Films should just cast Alex O'Laughlin and call it a day.
· The Lost City of Z
Odds of getting made with Pitt: 220-to-1. An adaptation of David Gran's best-selling non-fiction book, Pitt was set to play doomed explorer Percy Fawcett in The Lost City of Z. He even reportedly grew out his billy goat beard for the part! The only problem? There is no script, no start date and Pitt had to shave to appear in Moneyball. Better luck next time.
· The Tiger
Odds of getting made with Pitt: Infinity-to-1. Let me get this straight: Pitt and director Darren Aronofsky -- who famously couldn't get together for The Fountain or The Fighter -- are trying to make yet another movie together? Guess what guys: You won't.