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Meet Joe Black
Meet Joe Black is a 1998 American romantic fantasy film directed and produced by Martin Brest, and starring Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, and Claire Forlani. The screenplay by Bo Goldman, Kevin Wade, Ron Osborn and Jeff Reno is loosely based on the 1934 film "Death Takes a Holiday".
It was the second pairing of Hopkins and Pitt after their 1994 film "Legends of the Fall". The film received mixed reviews from critics, grossing $143 million worldwide.
Plot.
for a new film after the domestic failure of his 1998 film "Meet Joe Black", and the studio believed "Fight Club" would be more commercially successful with a major star. The studio signed Pitt for US$17.5 million.
For the role of the unnamed Narrator, the studio desired a "sexier marquee name" such as Matt Damon to increase the film's commercial prospects; it also considered Sean Penn. Fincher instead considered Norton based on his performance in the 1996 film "The People vs. Larry Flynt