Here are some photos of Brad Pitt at a Beverly Hills office building this week. The photos are getting a lot of play because of Brad’s tiny little ponytail. Brad has seemingly grown out his hair over the past year, so I feel like this is a pandemic-ponytail. It’s one of the most relatable things about Brad, as far as I’m concerned. I’ve been doing pandemic ponies and pandemic buns for a full year as well. I haven’t been in a hair salon in over a year! It sucks, my hair is so bad these days. I suspect that Brad has been inside a salon (not a barber shop) in the past year though. He’s obviously gotten some trims and, I strongly suspect, some dye jobs or highlights.

It also feels like Brad was heisting some artwork from this office building? It looks very much like he’s taking a piece of art – or something – and putting it in his SUV. As for his styling… very 1990s. Brad and Jennifer Aniston are meant for each other in that way, they both love some ‘90s style.

Mostly though, we haven’t heard that much about Brad recently. Some people were bizarrely suggesting that Brad and Kim Kardashian should get together now that they’re both single. Yeah… I doubt it. I even think Kim would not want him around her kids. There was also this curious casting announcement – Michael Fassbender is in talks for a role in a David Fincher project, a role that Brad was attached to one point?

David Fincher and Michael Fassbender are teaming up for The Killer, Fincher’s long-gestating assassin drama that may finally go before cameras this year, sources tell The Hollywood Reporter. Fincher has been associated with Killer since at least 2007, when the project, an adaptation of the French graphic novel, was set up at Paramount. Brad Pitt, who worked with Fincher on several films including Se7en, was even at one point circling to star. The project was put into turnaround and was quietly picked up by Netflix, with the streamer and filmmaker starting from first position.

And while it was a good six years between Fincher’s latest movies, 2014’s Gone Girl and last year’s Mank, sources say this one is moving fast for a September start. What’s more is that the project is being written by Andrew Kevin Walker, the scribe behind Fincher’s screen classics Se7en, The Game and Fight Club.

In a deal that is still coming together, Fassbender would star as an assassin who begins to psychologically crack as he develops a conscience, even while his clients continue to demand his skills. The graphic novel, described as hardboiled noir, hailed from writer Alexis Nolent, under the pen name Matz, and artist Luc Jacamon. Representatives for Fassbender did not return requests for comment, although several sources tell THR that talks are underway.

[From THR]

The description of the role makes it sound like it would be more in Fassbender’s wheelhouse, acting-wise, but the whole thing is rather curious. It feels like the original plan was to get the Se7en gang back together again and for some reason, Brad either left or he was pushed out. Very strange. Still, it’s nice to see Fassbender getting some work.

Photos courtesy of Backgrid.