After a hack attack, a number of heated emails allegedly written by Sony co-chairman Amy Pascal and producer Scott Rudin were released online and the target of their ire and insults was none other than actress Angelina Jolie, The Sydney Morning Herald reported.
Jolie's name popped up in the conversation between Pascal and Rudin when the latter two were discussing the upcoming biopic on the life of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.
An email by Rudin, who will be producing the biopic, revealed that Jolie did not agree with the decision to have David Fincher pass over her adaptation of "Cleopatra: The Life" in favor of working on the Jobs biopic. He allegedly emailed Pascal back in Feb. 27 to "shut Angie down" before she did anything to stop Fincher from doing the job.
Pascal then allegedly emailed a colleague claiming "we don't even know what Cleo is" and that project will just end up a "disaster," but ended the exchange in a civil manner saying that they should take a breather.
The attacks did not stop there as Rudin went off on a tirade about Jolie, saying she had a "rampaging spoiled ego," that all the talks about the Cleopatra film were sending everyone to "Crazyland" and that he was not willing to indulge "spoiled brats," according to Mirror.
He urged Pascal to keep Fincher on the project and said he was not interested to take part in "a $180m ego bath," adding that he was not going to destroy his career over a "minimally talented spoiled brat" and "a camp event."
Rudin also accused Jolie of suddenly passing on the Cleopatra project to film her movie and said he had no desire to ever work with her or with any project connected to her.
However, when news came around that Universal snapped up the project instead of Sony, Rudin took one last jab at Pascal and Jolie in a lengthy email, according to Gawker, a website which also contains the full list and copies of the emails.
"You've behaved abominably and it will be a very, very long time before I forget what you did to this movie and what you've put all of us through," he wrote.
Hackers from South Korea were suspected to be the cause of the cyber attack on Sony's servers, affecting the accounts and confidential files of around 47,000 employees, according to Mirror.
Other data was retrieved and released, such as an email from Fincher lying to Pascal about leaving the Jobs project, emails about Leonardo DiCaprio or Michael Fassbender playing Jobs and Rudin trashing production company Annapurna, according to Gawker.
