‘Casablanca’ Meets ‘Mr. & Mrs. Smith’ in WW2 Bomb Leaving Paramount+

The timing simply wasn't right for Brad Pitt's 2016 espionage romance film to succeed. He was coming off a highly publicized separation from Angelina Jolie, during which serious accusations were made against him. Pitt's career has survived, going by the success of last year's F1, which emerged as the highest-grossing film he's ever headlined. However, things weren't quite the same a decade ago, when he joined director Robert Zemeckis on the filmmaker's long-awaited return to live-action after an extended period during which he became obsessed with performance capture. Zemeckis had taken a brief break from visual effects-laden productions some years prior with the film Flight, but he'd spent more than a decade making animated films by the time he signed on to work with Pitt.