From ’12 Monkeys’ and ‘Fight Club,’ to ‘Benjamin Button,’ ‘Joe Black,’ and others, here’s our list.
Next week, one of our biggest movie stars hits theaters in one of the summer’s biggest movies. F1: The Movie, starring Brad Pitt, is out June 27 and it’s the kind of role only someone as huge as Pitt could play. Pitt has been one of the top movie stars in the world for decades. Rising to stardom in the early 1990s, he quickly jumped to leading man status and has never looked back since.
Pitt has had an incredibly varied career, making films in seemingly every genre imaginable. He’s been in romances, fantasy epics, crime thrillers, sports movies, you name it. He’s also made more than a few sci-fi films, which is our specialty here on io9. So, with Pitt on the mind thanks to his latest (decidedly non-sci-fi) movie coming out, here are our rankings of Brad Pitt’s sci-fi roles.
But, first, a clarification. As we said, Pitt has made a lot of movies, many of which straddle the line between genres. Just so you aren’t reading this article all day, we decided to be a little more strict in our classifications. So, for example, many of Pitt’s roles are almost on the edge of genre. Crime movies with spy elements, non-fiction characters in fantasy stories, and hyper-realistic settings.
