AMY PASCAL THINKS AARON SORKIN IS OVERPAID
On November 13, 2014, Pascal wrote a lengthy,
Jerry Maguire-esque email manifesto on the state of SPE’s motion picture group and sent it to most of her senior staff. In the memo, she seems
very down on Cameron Crowe’s as-yet-untitled Hawaii-set film coming out next year, starring Bradley Cooper, Emma Stone, and Bill Murray.
“Cameron never really changed anything… People don’t like people in movies who flirt with married people or married people who flirt… I’m never starting a movie again when the script is ridiculous and we all know it… Scott [Rudin] didn’t once go to the set or help us in the editing room or fix the script,” read the email.
Pascal is also very tough on Aaron Sorkin, discussing his various projects set up at Sony including the Steve Jobs biopic Jobs, his adaptation of Michael Lewis’s tome
Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt, and Sorkin’s adaptation of
Molly’s Game, a memoir by self-proclaimed “poker Princess” Molly Bloom who ran underground poker games attended by Hollywood A-listers.
“We are getting totally positioned in the Aaron stuff,” wrote Pascal. “He is broke… He wants to get paid… We paid him his insane fee on flashboys… When the poker movie came around we didn’t want to not be in Aaron business so we wanted that too… I don’t care if Aaron is sleeping with the girl or not… I don’t care if it becomes a beat seller… They are treating us like shyt.”
So vulgar.
