A very reliable source tells me that Spike Jonze’s sci-fi Netflix series, which had Brad Pitt and Joaquin Phoenix in talks to star, was going to cost the streamer a cool $30M per episode. The series was supposed to be ten episodes, which means that the total budget would have been around $300M. Netflix need not worry anymore as it was recently reported that Jonze has left the series. Pitt and Phoenix are no longer attached.
For months, people close to CEO David Ellison had hinted that he would leave if state AGs didn't drop their antitrust suit against the $111 billion Warner Bros. Discovery merger.