Brad Pitt is entering a new stage in his career now that he’s rocking the salt-and-pepper look, but that doesn’t mean he isn’t hungry to star in the biggest blockbusters each year. In 2025, Pitt starred in one of the biggest movies of the year, F1, which grossed over $600 million at the box office, even defeating World War Z to become Pitt’s highest-grossing movie in history. The film has also gone on to become a colossal streaming success on Apple TV. Pitt’s first movie of 2026, Heart of the Beast, just hit theaters a few weeks ago, and it’s already earning rave reviews. Heart of the Beast co-stars J.K. Simmons,and it was directed by David Ayer, who worked with Pitt over 10 years ago on the WWII movie, Fury.
Brad Pitt has starred in dozens of iconic movies over the years, but one of his films that he thinks could be the best of the best is officially staging a streaming comeback. All the way back in 1999, Brad Pitt starred alongside Edward Norton in one of the greatest psychological thrillers of all time, Fight Club, which was directed by David Fincher. Pitt and Fincher also worked together on Se7en, the iconic serial killer film co-starring Morgan Freeman. Fight Club was famously booed after its premiere at the 1999 Venice Film Festival, and after the crowd filtered out, Pitt turned to Edward Norton and said, “That’s the best film I’m ever going to be in.” Fans and critics may not have appreciated Fight Club at the time, but they certainly have learned to love it over the years.
Collider Exclusive · Villain Personality Quiz Which Criminal Mastermind Would Be Your Nemesis? Lecter · Joker · Moriarty · Chigurh
Four of the finest criminal minds ever put on screen. One of them would look at you and see something worth their time. Eight questions decide which one comes for you, why they picked you, and what they would want when they arrived.
🍷Lecter
🃏Joker
♟️Moriarty
🪙Chigurh
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What would a criminal mastermind notice about you first? Great villains choose their opponents carefully. Something about you got their attention.
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How do they make first contact? The introduction tells you everything about what is coming next.
03
What do you actually believe about right and wrong? Every nemesis is really an argument about the thing you believe most.
04
What finally gets under your skin? Everybody has a pressure point. Finding yours is the whole plan.
05
They have made their move. How do you fight back? This is the part of the film where the audience finds out who you are.
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What would they use against you? A good villain never brings a weapon you have not already handed them.
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What do they actually want from you? The money is never the point. Something else always is.
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How does it end between the two of you? Eight questions in, this is the one that decides who comes for you.
The Case File Is Complete Your Nemesis Is…
Four criminal masterminds. One of them was always going to be yours.
Here is who comes for you, why they picked you out of everyone available, and what they want from
the encounter.
The Silence of the Lambs · Hannibal · 1991–2002
Hannibal Lecter
Your nemesis does not want to beat you. He wants to know you
completely, and he is patient enough to wait for it. The frightening part is how good the
conversation is.
Lecter is the most dangerous kind of opponent: the one who finds you interesting. He
never raises his voice, because he has never needed to.
You keep a great deal to yourself and you are careful about what you show. That reserve
is exactly the door he would knock on.
The films understood something other thrillers missed. The horror is not the violence.
It is being perfectly understood by the wrong person.
He would be unfailingly polite about all of it. That is the worst part.
Batman · The Dark Knight · 1989–2019
The Joker
Your nemesis is not after money, territory or revenge. He is
after a demonstration, and you are the person he has chosen to prove his point on.
The Joker only picks opponents who believe in something. Your decency is not a defence
against him. It is the entire reason he showed up.
He has no plan you can predict and nothing you can take away, which removes every tool
you would normally reach for.
His whole argument is that you are one bad day away from being him, and you would spend
the rest of your life proving him wrong.
He would call it a magic trick. You would call it the worst night of your life.
Sherlock Holmes · The Final Problem · Since 1893
Moriarty
Your nemesis respects you, which sounds flattering until you work
out what it means. He chose you because nobody else was worth his time.
Moriarty is the original criminal mastermind, the template every later one borrows from:
a mind the equal of the hero’s, pointed the wrong way.
You enjoy being the cleverest person in the room. He is counting on exactly that, and he
has already built the room.
This is the rare nemesis who would be genuinely disappointed if you lost badly. He needs
the game to be worth playing.
It ends the way these things always end. Two people, one problem, and only one way down.
No Country for Old Men · 2007
Anton Chigurh
Your nemesis has no personal interest in you whatsoever, and that
is precisely what makes him unsurvivable. You are not a rival. You are a stop on the way.
Chigurh does not negotiate, gloat or explain. He arrives, he asks one question, and the
answer was decided long before you opened your mouth.
You trust yourself to handle things. He is the one problem in the world that has no
interest in how capable you are.
No Country for Old Men rewrote the screen villain by removing the thing audiences
quietly rely on: the sense that talking might work.
Call it. He will wait.
Here’s How to Watch ‘Fight Club’ on Streaming
The only way to watch Fight Club at the time of writing is by renting or purchasing the movie on VOD platforms like Prime Video and Apple TV. Still, fans are doing so at such a high clip thatFight Club has resurfaced in the global VOD top 10 in more than 15 countries around the world. Much of this success can likely be attributed to Pitt’s new movie, Heart of the Beast — when a new film comes out, if people like it, it’s only natural to check out older films from the same artist on streaming.
Check out Fight Club on VOD platforms like Prime Video and Apple TV and stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage of Brad Pitt’s future projects.
