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The Devil’s Advocate

Casting What-Ifs

Joel Schumacher and Brad Pitt; repeated Pacino refusals; Reeves’s pay cut; Theron’s hesitation

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  • A proposed 1994 version with Schumacher and Pitt would have modeled the subway on Dante’s circles of hell; it reportedly collapsed without an actor for Satan.
  • Pacino reportedly rejected the project five times, Reeves accepted reduced pay to secure him, and Theron hesitated about nudity.