A group calling itself Guardians of Peace is continuing to leak emails sent between Hollywood bigwigs and Sony Pictures personnel. The latest hack shows Sony co-chair Amy Pascal and producer Scott Rudin joking about President Barack Obama's race before a Hollywood event in November of last year.
According to BuzzFeed, before Pascal attended a breakfast hosted by Dreamworks' Jeffrey Katzenberg with Hollywood bosses and President Obama she emailed Rudin to get advice on what questions she should ask the President.
"What should I ask the president at this stupid Jeffrey breakfast?" Pascal wrote.
"Would he like to finance some movies?" Rudin responded.
Pascal: "I doubt it. Should I ask him if he liked DJANGO?" (Referring to Quentin Tarantino's 2012 film "Django Unchained" about slavery two years before the Civil War).
Rudin: "12 YEARS." (Referring to the 2013 movie "12 Years a Slave," about a free black man forced into slavery).
Pascal: "Or the butler. Or think like a man?"
Rudin: "Ride-along. I bet he likes Kevin Hart."
In other leaked emails between Rudin and Pascal, the two got into a heated exchange about actress Angelina Jolie. According to Defamer, the argument seems to have been sparked by Jolie's aggravation that David Fincher was going to direct the upcoming biopic on Steve Jobs instead of her movie, "Cleopatra."
In one exchange, Rudin ordered Pascal to "shut Angie down before she makes it hard for David to do Jobs," according to Defamer. He also referred to Jolie as "a minimally talented spoiled brat" from "Crazyland."
"I'm not destroying my career over a minimally talented spoiled brat who thought nothing of shoving ['Cleopatra'] off her plate for 18 months so she could go direct a movie ['Unbroken']," Rudin wrote.
Eventually, Fincher left the Jobs' biopic and was replaced with Danny Boyle. Sony later dropped the project from its slate and Universal Pictures picked it up.
