Sony tried desperately to make the Aaron Sorkin-penned biopic of Steve Jobs, while Angelina Jolie tried to pull director David Fincher away to direct her in Cleopatra.

The Angie drama is ironic in that the original Cleopatra is infamous as one of the most bloated disappointments in cinema history, inflated by the demands of its star, Elizabeth Taylor.

Producer Scott Rudin heavily opposed this move, and said of Jolie:

There is no movie of Cleopatra to be made (and how that is a bad thing given the insanity and rampaging ego of this woman and the cost of the movie is beyond me).

Rudin also tells Sony Pictures Co-Chair Amy Pascal: "YOU BETTER SHUT ANGIE DOWN BEFORE SHE MAKES IT VERY HARD FOR DAVID TO DO JOBS."