Bruce Norris has reportedly left HBO's highly-anticipated pilot The Corrections.
The show, which is being produced by Scott Rudin and directed by Noah Baumbach, is an adaptation of Jonathan Franzen's award-winning novel of the same name.
Norris had allegedly been lined up to play the elder brother Gary in the pilot but chose to exit the project, the New York Post reports.
He allegedly told Rudin: "I don't like to do pilots."
Rudin is now said to be so angry with Norris that he has scrapped plans to bring the actor's play Clybourne Park to Broadway and will no longer help with two other projects he had been working on.
"[Norris] behaved like a total asshole," a source claimed. "He got every point he wanted in his contract, and then he just walked away. He acted in complete and total bad faith. Scott was furious."
Neither Rudin nor Norris have commented on the rumours.
Dianne Wiest, Chris Cooper and Ewan McGregor have all signed up for lead roles in the pilot for The Corrections, which is currently in development.
