They have suffered through the most high profile and bitter Hollywood divorce of the last 50 years — which is, incredibly, still going on.
But Brad Pitt, 60, and Angelina Jolie, 49, are now being offered a “blank check” if they can somehow put their love of acting over their differences and star in a movie together, according to one overly optimistic producer.
Danny Rossner — whose previous cinematic high points include spoof “2001: A Space Travesty” with Leslie Neilsen and action movie “The Ultimate Weapon” with Hulk Hogan — claims he is serious about his offer and has raised around $60 million from his backers, which he hopes would be enough to entice enemies Brad and Angelina to bury the hatchet.
However, it will be a hard sell to an ex-couple who have warred over custody of their kids, money and the future of their wine business for eight years.
Proof of the A-list rift was visible in September when organizers of the Venice Film Festival had to ensure the exes’ respective movies were shown on different days.
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Rossner – with movie output over the last ten years has a distinctly more B-movie than A-list flavor – describes the film he wants Brad and Angelina to star in as his passion project of over 20 years.
It is a love story set at the Hotel Martinez in Cannes, France, during World War II, based on the real-life owner.
Pitt would play Emmanuel Martinez, the hotel owner time and Jolie his alluring mistress and muse Emma Digard.
The script means they’d have to perform intimately together, as Rossner admits: “There is a love scene … It’s a torrid one, too. It’s not salacious but there are very heavy love scenes. [Martinez] had a wife and he had a mistress.”
He’s also not worked out an even split in the fees for the exes, which is sure to prove a sticking point for Angelina, should the project miraculously make it as far as the negotiating table.
“Right now, I think, Brad Pitt’s in the $20 to $25 million range [per movie] and Angelina Jolie is in the $15 million range,” said Rossner.
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7 “In the 50-percent range above their going rate is what we’re prepared to offer,” he told The Post.
That would mean as much as $37.5 million for Pitt, but only $22 million for Jolie.
When it is pointed out the ex couple – who have been locked in divorce proceedings since 2016, which have never been fully resolved, although a judge has legally declared them single – would not even appear in the same room, let alone film steamy scenes, Rossner said he would accommodate them.
“Then [the scenes] would disappear. That is the beauty of having the right to adjust the screenplay. But they’re certainly important for character development.”
Rossner also acknowledges the casting is a long shot, but says other miraculous things have happened in the world recently.
“If we can have a cease fire between Israel and Lebanon, [Pitt and Jolie] can put their differences aside and come together to build a bridge and make this movie,” he claimed.
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