Detox. No, Jean-Paul Sartre will not be played by Brad Pitt in the cinema.

Where does the intox come from?

Almost 2 million views. This was collected in a tweet broadcast on March 18.
Its author, a certain Giovanni Rolla, presents himself as a professor of philosophy based in Brazil. He publishes the “first photos of Brad Pitt as Jean-Paul Sartre and Eva Green as Simone de Beauvoir, in an upcoming biopic”. We actually see the two actors in period costume, in the shoes of the two French intellectuals. A cast largely mocked by tweetos from around the world for whom Brad Pitt has a physique that is far too advantageous. “In general, good-looking actors can play historical characters, let’s say… less beautiful than them. But the ? No. The story doesn’t hold up. If Jean-Paul Sartre had looked like Brad Pitt… he would not have been Jean-Paul Sartre » Others are indignant at the age difference between the two actors, much greater than that which separated Beauvoir from Sartre.

Why is this wrong?

Some tweeters ended up deleting their message… And for good reason. Déintox questioned the author of the viral tweet who readily admits that it is “a joke” which he created from scratch with the help of the latest version of Midjourney., An intelligence tool artificial which creates images from a textual description, and which is increasingly found at the origin of viral fake news. “For me, it was obvious that it was wrong, I did not expect to attract so much attention” he defends himself. A clue was also in his Twitter bio. Giovanni Rolla cites his favorite hobby there: “making parodic images of artificial intelligence”.