Question: How much was Pitt offered for the movie?
About the article "Fight Club", section "Casting".

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"Happy Endings Are Stories That Haven't Ended Yet" is a quote by Jane Smith, played by Angelina Jolie, from the 2005 action film "Mr. & Mrs. Smith", much like how "Champagne's for Celebrating (I'll Have a Martini)", from their debut album, "A Lesson in Romantics" (2007), was a quote by John Smith, played by Brad Pitt, from the same movie.
"Everything's an Illusion" is a quote from the 2011 film "Water for Elephants". 
Conroy began writing "Beach Music" as a way of coping with the death of his own mother in 1984.
Ten years later, he submitted 2100 typed pages to Doubleday editor Nan Talese.
With Conroy's consent and help, she trimmed it into a much shorter version.
The book reached the top position on the New York Times Best Seller list.
Paramount Pictures purchased the rights for $5.1 million, but as of 2013, still hasn't made it into a movie.
Scripts were written (and rewritten several times), and Brad Pitt was at one point offered the part.
Interviewed in 2009, Conroy said the film plans are "still hanging out there."
Woodhall was a body double for Brad Pitt in a fight scene in the movie Snatch, directed by Guy Ritchie.
He trained Matthew Marsden for his role in the movie "Shiner". 
Mellencamp has made several forays into acting over the years, appearing in four films: "Falling from Grace" (which he also directed) (1992), "Madison" (2001, narration only), "After Image" (2001), and "Lone Star State of Mind" (2002).
His older brother, Joe Mellencamp, appears in "Falling from Grace" as the bandleader during the country club scene along with his band Pure Jam.
In 1980, Mellencamp turned down the lead role in the movie "The Idolmaker" because, as he told the "Toledo Blade" in 1983, "I was afraid that if I made too much money, I'd have no motivation to make records anymore.
"Mellencamp told VH1 that he was originally offered the Brad Pitt role in Thelma and Louise: "You know they used to want me to be an actor all the time and I used to get more movie role offers.
That's when I was – believe it or not, I used to not be as ugly as I am now.
And they gave me this script called "Thelma & Louise" and they said, 'The guy wrote the part with you in mind, John, you really gotta do this part.'
And I read the script and I thought, 'Yeah, I get it but I don't want to take my shirt off.'
So Brad Pitt took his shirt off and look what happened to Brad Pitt.
I was that close.
"In April 2007, Mellencamp was a "guest critic" on "At the Movies", filling in for Roger Ebert. 
 Jeremy is on his computer chatting on a vampire website and when he asks the other person how they became a vampire, the person says that Brad Pitt changed them, referring to the movie where Pitt was playing a vampire and then tells him to go to Vegas and ask for Wayne Newton.
Jeremy continues chatting and when he asks how someone can kill a vampire, the other person tells him with the blood of Paula Abdul.
Elena asks Stefan if he had ever been on a double date before and he says on 1972 "with Hef and the twins, I got Miss June", referring to Hugh Hefner, the founder of Playboy Enterprises and one of the "Playboy" models.
Stefan, Elena, Caroline and Matt go to the Salvatore house and Caroline says that "this is much better than watching Damon visit Cougar Town" referring to the ABC's sitcom.
Stefan and Matt talk about cars and Matt says that he did the entire "Mustang" series and later asks Elena if she remembers the old Camaro her father used to have.