The Pandemic Brad Pitt

Brad Pitt has been in the right place at the right time..and he has brought along the right people too. Let's revisit his pandemic appearances, beginning with his April 25, 2020 cold opening of Saturday Night Live, as Dr. Anthony Fauci.

True Romance is a 1993 American romantic crime film written by Quentin Tarantino and directed by Tony Scott (suicide, 68, August 19, 2012). The film stars Christian Slater and Patricia Arquette with an ensemble cast including James Gandolfini (heart attack, 51, June 19, 2013), Dennis Hopper (prostate cancer, 74, May 29, 2010), Michael Rapaport, Bronson Pinchot, Val Kilmer, Gary Oldman, Brad Pitt, and Christopher Walken.

Brad Pitt played "Floyd," who improvised the line: "Hey! Get some beer and some cleaning products!" (Source)

"Cleaning products" = disinfectants.

In World War Z (2013), Brad Pitt's character, Gerry Lane, a former UN employee, pursues the answer to the solution of the global "zombie pandemic." Lane discovers the virus-infected zombies avoid infected humans. He works with a World Health Organization (WHO) facility outside Cardiff, Wales.

Peter Capaldi was credited as W.H.O. Doctor in World War Z (2013). He portrayed the twelfth incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who (2013–2017).

In World War Z, Lane and the W.H.O. doctors develop a new "vaccine," derived from deadly pathogens, and widely issued to survivors around the world battling or taking shelter from the infected, acting as a kind of camouflage. The vaccine also helps survivors to reach quarantine zones.

I enjoy the wonderful coincidence that the day before the Naval War College received my and Joe Nickell's presentation on the strategic informing of the future via cryptozoology, the special committee who listened to us also heard from Max Brooks, the author of World War Z.

Brad Pitt, Hawaiian shirts, 12 Monkeys, and Once Upon A Time In Hollywood.

12 Monkeys, also known as Twelve Monkeys, is a 1995 American science fiction film about a worldwide pandemic, directed by Terry Gilliam. Starring in a supporting role is Brad Pitt as Jeffrey Goines, the son of Christopher Plummer as Dr. Leland Goines.

In The Man Who Would Be King (1975), a film that is extremely Masonic, Christopher Plummer plays Rudyard Kipling.

The actor who would be Rudyard Kipling and the real Kipling.

Some scenes in 12 Monkeys are looking eerily like the world of COVID19.

2020 ~ Asia

2020 ~ Asia

2020 ~ Asia 

1995 ~ 12 Monkeys

2020 ~ Asia

2020 ~ Asia

1995 ~ 12 Monkeys

1995 ~ 12 Monkeys (Joseph Melito plays young Cole)

Dr. Anthony Fauci, displaying the hidden hand sign, has been the focus of Masonic social media speculation.

Other near pandemic-like roles:

Interview with the Vampire (1994) has Brad Pitt as Louis de Pointe du Lac. He was turned into a vampire by the bite from Lestat de Lioncourt (played by Tom Cruise). The vampire "infection" is transmitted by what appears to be a virus. Wandering the streets of New Orleans, amid an outbreak of plague, Louis can resist his hunger no more and feeds on a little girl whose mother has died in the plague.

Brad Pitt plays the emotionless Death who finds emotions as Joe Black, while occupying the body of the Young Man in Coffee Shop in Meet Joe Black (1998).

Southmedic Inc. announced that the OxyMask is featured in a new Brad Pitt movie hitting theaters on September 20, 2019. Only it's second appearance in films.

The use of the OxyMask during the coronavirus pandemic was the source of some CDC debate.

That film was Ad Astra. Starring Brad Pitt.

In The Big Short (2015), Ben Rickert (played by Brad Pitt) is shown wearing a facial mask in the airport, to protect himself against a global pandemic (?during the 2008 financial collapse?). He acknowledges an Asian wearing a mask on the passing escalator.   The Reddit caption appears to be a recent hoax/joke.

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237: Cryptokubrology, Cronenbergology, and Morrowology

Although the narrative gives the wrong date, we all know this occurred on 23 July (the 7th month), 1982. Was this "237" = "23/7" foreseen by Cronenberg, Kubrick, and others?

Twilight Zone: TheWorst Accident in Film History from bob jones on Vimeo.

Under trivia for Twilight Zone: The Movie, from IMDb, the following was shared:

Vic Morrow's last completed film was 1990: The Bronx Warriors (1982). In an eerily prescient scene that seemed to foreshadow his tragic death in this film, Morrow's superior says to him, "If you don't get the girl by 11 o'clock tomorrow, I'll have your head!" Morrow's character replied, "We'll fly her in, in a helicopter."

[Summer of '42's Jennifer] O'Neill has been married nine times to eight husbands (she married, divorced, and remarried her sixth husband). She has three children from three fathers.
Dean Rossiter (1965 - 1971) (divorced) (1 child)
Joseph Koster (1972 - 1974) (divorced)
Nick De Noia (1975 - 1976) (divorced)
Jeff Barry (1978 - 1979) (divorced)
John Lederer (1979 - 1983) (divorced) (1 child)
Richard Alan Brown (1986 - 1989) (divorced) (1 child)
Neil L. Bonin (1992 - 1993) (annulled)
Richard Alan Brown (1993 - 1996) (divorced)
Mervin Sidney Louque, Jr. (1996 – present)
Ex-husband Nick de Noia was later murdered in 1987 by one of his former associates.
On October 23, 1982, O'Neill suffered a gunshot wound in her home on McClain Street in Bedford, New York. Police officers who interviewed O'Neill determined that she had accidentally shot herself in the abdomen with a .38 caliber revolver at her 30-acre, 25-room French-style estate while trying to determine if the weapon was loaded. Her fifth husband at the time, John Lederer, was not in the house when the handgun was discharged, but two other people were in the house. Detective Sgt. Thomas Rothwell was quoted as having said that O'Neill "didn't know much about guns."
On October 12, 1984, O'Neill's co-star in the Cover Up television series, Jon-Erik Hexum, mortally wounded himself on the show's set, unaware that a gun loaded with a blank cartridge could still cause extreme damage from the effect of expanding powder gasses. He died six days later. Source.

Others:

Arthur Everett Scholl (December 24, 1931 – September 16, 1985) 53
Veteran pilot Art Scholl was killed when his camera plane crashed during the filming of Top Gun; stuntman Reid Rondell was killed in a helicopter crash on the set of Airwolf; actors Brandon Lee (Bruce’s son) and Jon-Erik Hexum (star of the NBC series Voyagers!) were killed by guns loaded with blanks. Stuntman Reid Rondell, 22, was killed and the pilot of the helicopter, Scott Maher, 36, suffered serious injuries in the January 18, 1985 crash near Newhall, California.

Brandon Bruce Lee (February 1, 1965 – March 31, 1993) 28
In 1992, Brandon Lee landed his breakthrough role as Eric Draven in Alex Proyas' The Crow (1994), based on the comic book of the same name, which would be his final film. On March 31, 1993, only a few days away from completing the film, Lee was accidentally killed after being shot on the set of The Crow by a prop gun that fired a bullet from a dummy round that was accidentally lodged in the chamber.

Michael Groo Massee (September 1, 1952 – October 20, 2016) was an American actor. In 1993, Massee portrayed the character Funboy in the film The Crow, starring Brandon Lee. Massee was the actor who fired the shot that killed Lee by accident on the set in 1993, due to an improperly prepared prop gun. He was so traumatized by the event that he returned to New York and took a year off from acting and never saw the film. In an interview in 2005, 12 years after the incident, Massee revealed that he still had nightmares about it, going on to say, "I don't think you ever get over something like that."
He guest-starred in The X-Files episode "The Field Where I Died". He appeared as a hunter, Kubrick, on the series Supernatural in 2007. Massee died of stomach cancer in Los Angeles on October 20, 2016 at the age of 64.

 Jon-Erik Hexum (November 5, 1957 – October 18, 1984) was an American actor, known for his lead roles in the TV series Voyagers! and Cover Up, and his supporting role as Pat Trammell in the biopic The Bear. He died at 26, as a result of an accidental self-inflicted blank cartridge gunshot to the head on the set of Cover Up.

Credit to Gary W. Wright, Andrew W. Griffin, Alex Fulton, Shawn Montgomery, and Max Hopewell.