Plan B Entertainment

Huge.

And the entire apparatus was put together by producer Joy Gorman Wettels, um, through her company, Joy Coalition, and she partnered with Brad Pitt's Plan B Entertainment and Studio Canal.

Right.

All of this was locked in before Focus Features was even brought to the table.

Regardless of the controversy surrounding that show, she has unparalleled experience in navigating the complex PR and production challenges of portraying youth mental health crises on screen.

That makes a lot of sense.

And then you bring in Plan B Entertainment.

Brad Pitt's production company has spent the last two decades establishing itself as basically the gold standard for prestige auteur cinema.

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This film comes to us as a long-running blacklist script picked up with production help from Damien Chazelle and Brad Pitt's Plan B.

And having Brad Pitt star in a new David Ayer movie, just not something I would have expected at this point.

Of course, they did collaborate in the past with Fury back in 2014, a World War II tank movie that I love a lot.

Paramount, which, as you know, is in the news for lots of other reasons, has closed deals with Pitt and Berger for its sequel.

Dennis Kelly will write the screenplay, while Pitt, Dee Dee Gardner, and Jeremy Kleiner will produce through Plan B Entertainment, which...

Whenever I read that, I always read it as like the morning after pill company.

I'm like, I don't know if I would name my company.

Like, uh, I think up until F1 world war Z, even though it's not like a huge movie and a lot of people wouldn't point to it as like a massive blockbuster, uh, It was still, up until F1, Brad Pitt's biggest box office success ever.

And it was actually part of his production company, Plan B, as well.

So apparently, it's been going around for a while, but they are making a World War Z sequel.

I didn't hate the movie.

And Brad is back.

And just like the 2013 original, his Plan B company is going to produce the sequel.

Now, if you remember, Plan B is the company he started with Jennifer Aniston when they were married.

Wow.

got it in the divorce.

they started that company?

Yeah, that was theirs together.

And we always have to have a plan B if plan A doesn't work out.

That's like a whole other fucking thing.

But our story today is actually about a different film that she signed on to called The Waffle House Index, which is a sci-fi thriller by Apple Films and Plan B Productions about a late-night waitress during an increasingly chaotic and bizarre graveyard shift.

Now we'll bring back in Jeff Snyder.

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It doesn't ever seem like Brad Pitt is all that involved with the production of Plan B movies.

No.

It seems nominal at this point.

Because, like, Plan B produced I Saw the TV Glow.

Right.

Brad Pitt

Well, when Yu Zheng Yun won her Oscar for Minari, didn't she say, like, thank you to Brad Pitt, like, we've never met before, and, you know, but you're a producer on the movie? Like, I imagine that that is the case for a lot of these things, you know, that, you know, perhaps, you know, Dee Dee Gardner is the, you know, workhorse in that relationship.