Brad Pitt dropped a bombshell in a Tokyo interview for the Australian 60 Minutes. When interviewer Tara Brown asked the 47-year-old, “How much longer would you like to do your business for?” Pitt answered, “Three years.” She followed up with “Three years?” And he affirmed, “Yeah.” Brown continued, “And then what happens after three years?” To which Pitt responded, “Hell if I know. I am really enjoying the producing side and development of stories and putting those pieces together. And getting stories to the plate that might have had a tougher time otherwise.” For example, the movie he was promoting over there, Moneyball. There’s a good deal more that you can watch or read here, which is where everybody else got this and went crazy, but Deadline likes Brown’s question, “Do you get a lot of kudos making a film like this with your kids, a baseball film?” And Pitt’s answer: “I get more mileage with the zombie film,” referring to World War Z, directed by Marc Forster and targeted to open December 21, 2012 — just after Pitt turns 49.


Thanks for all but confirming World War Z will be PG-13, Brad.
I can’t wait until theaters go belly-up and the MPAA becomes irrelevant.
Wow, what a shameless grab for an Oscar. Give it to me now because there isn’t much time left. Jolie pulled this five or six years ago when she was campaigning for something. I think it was Mighty Heart. Needless to say, she never kept her promise. Between this dramatic announcement and Clooney suddenly sharing his suicidal thoughts the Oscar campaign season is officially in full swing. Feel free to call me cynical hater, but we all know how these campaigns work.
cynical bloviator
sounds about right…
hmm, you cynical hater…I agree with you!
Are there any trailers out for World War Z? I would be interested to see what direction they take the film.
On one hand I say ‘Oh no he is one of the greatest!’. But one the other hand he has a big family and I am sure he wants to spend his time with them.
Same old, tired Hollywood faces that keep losing money at the box office.
When will Hollywood learn??
Quick! Alert the authorities! Nikki & the gang have outted Brad Pitt’s age!
Brad Pitt acts? I’ve never seen it.
You must not have seen Fight Club, Tree of Life, Inglourious Basterds, Burn After Reading, or Snatch — among others. Sure, he’s a star first and foremost, but you can’t accuse him of not acting well in numerous films. Having said that, I hate these kind of hollow pronouncements by those lucky enough to be earning enough to collect houses for fun.
Well wash your eyes because act he does and very well he does it.
Maybe you never seen him cuz you live under a rock! The guy is an amazing actor…just watch “12 Monkeys, Seven, Legends of the Fall…Inglorious Basterds”…oh wait, they dont have theaters under a rock!
Buh-bye, Brad.
Yeah, right.
His “retirement” will last about as long as John Corbett’s retirement to become a country and western singer and Joaquin Phoenix’s sham rap career.
There are too many millions to make for merely standing in front of a camera so I don’t buy it in the least.
him and angie are always threatening to quit acting. every couple of months they say something like this and it’s then followed by a series of announcements for their next twenty movies.
Come on dude…if you’re going to retire it’d be much more interesting to see you just leave without a word. Why do you keep dropping these forced sound bytes?
I didn’t realize he’d begun.
I wouldn’t call his comment a “bombshell.” If he said he was retiring now and actually did so, then yeah. But he just remarked that he sees himself acting for about three more years. Maybe five minutes later, he felt totally differently. Maybe in a year, he will. Maybe he’ll still be acting in twenty years. To me, this “three years” thing seems like an offhand comment that isn’t worthy of much notice.
I won’t hold my breath. (Soderbergh, are you reading this?)
He’s sees his looks fading, popularity diminishing, lacks the talent to make a transition into character roles.
Has anyone else noticed that he’s deliberately been playing against his traditional hunkiness in roles the past couple years? It isn’t working… the worse his hair looks, the more likely the film he’s in will flop.
Bull sh – t.
Encouraging to hear about someone in filmdom planning to retire without working into their 70′s.
Isn’t the usual scenario to work into your mid 70′s then drop dead within a year or so of retiring? (yes I am looking at you TV directors!)
Brad Pitt WAS a good actor. Then he got into the whole ‘I’m Brad Pitt Playing A Character, But You Came To See Me, Brad Pitt’ thing.
He hasn’t been convincing in anything since Babel.
His performance in Moneyball is evidence that this is a guy that has disappeared up his own ass.
Good luck with setting up projects as a producer if you’re not longer acting.
Congratulations on your retirement! Take your wife with you when you go. Much ado About Nothing…
o realy?!! OK. will see…
well seeing as it’s generally agreed that “retirement” announcements mean squat, if anyone knows the brand of shades BP is wearing in the accompanying photo, please post that info here!
Pitt is one of the very best of his generation.