I’m pretty much convinced that Brad Pitt can pull of any movie role and still look sexy. The guy from Legends of the Fall? Sexy. Thelma & Louise? Sexy. Unabomber Ted Kaczynski? Still sexy. I mean a little less so – what with the aviator shades and the hood – but hot, nonetheless. Brad’s production company “Plan B” is currently considering a script about the Unabomber. And though they point out that the company makes films in which Brad does not star, let’s be honest here: he’d be the Unabomber. Because no one could bring sex appeal to sweats and scruff like Brad Pitt.

Would Brad Pitt be a convincing Unabomber? His production company, Plan B, is considering a biopic about Ted Kaczynski, the Harvard-educated, manifesto-scribbling, beard-sporting, imprisoned-for-life terrorist who killed three and wounded 23 with his letter bombs. The manhunt for Kaczynski was one of the most expensive in FBI history. There’s also a family angle to a potential film: It was Ted’s brother, David Kaczynski, an anti-death-penalty activist, who ultimately turned him in to the authorities. Pitt’s publicist, Cindy Guagenti, confirms that Plan B is “looking at” a Unabomber script, but stresses that the production company is not yet involved in a formal way. “It’s not a project they’ve taken on yet,” she says. “It’s something they’re looking at.” She adds that Plan B’s execs get “a million scripts thrown at them” and not always for Pitt. “He doesn’t star in everything they produce, clearly.” If it does happen, it won’t be soon. “He’s got so many movies lined up,” she says.

[From New York Magazine]

Plan B is the company that Brad and Jennifer Aniston started together when they were married, and they both still have a stake in it – though it doesn’t appear they ever work together on the same projects in front of or behind the camera. I think a Unabomber film could be pretty interesting. Enough time has passed where it’s no longer quite the sensitive issue that it once was. But there’s a lot the general public doesn’t know about Ted Kaczynski, and it could make for a good film. Plus Brad Pitt trudging around a mountain all scruffy, pounding out angry letters on his old typewriter with the funky “i” key? That’s hot.

Picture note by Jaybird: Here’s Brad and Angie at the “Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford” – New York City Movie Premiere. Image thanks to PR Photos.