Pitt to play his own lookalike

You would have thought that Brad Pitt would have realised how fact and fiction jarred so badly when Julia Roberts pretended to be Julia Roberts in the flimsy Ocean’s Twelve.

But he must have been the one person who got the joke because the suddenly single actor has signed on for the comedy Chad Schmidt, which is about an actor who moves to Los Angeles in the 1980s to chase his dream of becoming a film star and discovers he bears a remarkable resemblance to, you guessed it, Brad Pitt.