BRAD PITT CAUSES BRITISH 'FURY' BY FILMING BATTLE SCENES ON REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY

Brad Pitt at the Toronto Internation Film Festival this year. Credit: Getty Images

All of the chaos came from the production of "Fury," the new World War II film starring Brad Pitt and directed by David Ayer ("End of Watch"). Ayer and his crew -- along with about 100 British extras -- rocked the area in and around Shirburn, Oxon, at 4 a.m. on Sunday with a large-scale battle scene, according to U.K. website The Mirror.

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Normally it would be exciting to have movie starring Pitt, Shia LaBeouf, and Logan Lerman shooting on location, even if it was a bit loud and in the middle of the night. But Ayer angered and insulted locals by having his war film shoot on Remembrance Sunday, the second Sunday in November during which the U.K. celebrates the end of hostilities of World War I (on Nov. 11, 1918 at 11 a.m.).

The cast and crew of "Fury" observed the day by having British extras dressed as Nazi soldiers, "rampaging over fields," as described by The Mirror. Ayer has, not surprisingly, received some backlash after ignoring pleas to halt filming out of respect for the day -- most notably from his own cast.

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"It's not as if he didn't know that for many of us, Remembrance Sunday is the most important day of the year," said one extra. "Instead of toasting our forebears whose bravery gave us this life, we were charging through the countryside dressed as marauding Nazis."

The stars of 'Fury' - Brad Pitt, Shia LaBeouf, Logan Lerman, Michael Peña and Jon Bernthal. Credit: Sony Pictures.

"This was grotesquely disrespectful and offensive. I can't believe I wore an SS uniform on Remembrance Sunday," said another.

Ian Hill, chairman of Watlington Parish Council, which neighbours the film set, voiced his frustrations to the International Business Times: "I do not think it was a good time to be filming," Hill said. "There is a lot of sensitivity around Remembrance Weekend and the filmmakers should have been aware of that. It's very unfortunate for people living nearby that they were filming during the night on any day."

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Ayer has received criticism from British authority figures as well, with Colonel Richard Kemp, former commander of British forces in Afghanistan, saying, "At the very time a nation pays tribute to those who gave their lives to stop Nazis rampaging across our land it seems grossly insensitive to impose such scenes on villagers. A director whose film is profiting from the sacrifices made by 800,000 British and American soldiers in the Second World War has a duty to ensure his crew are allowed to pause to pay proper respect to the dead." The Australian toll in the Second World War was over 100,000 lives lost.

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A regretful Ayer, who is a veteran of the U.S. Navy, took to Twitter Monday morning to apologise to those British civilians, servicemen and cast members upset with the film's shoot. He wrote: "My heartfelt apologies for any disrespect on Remembrance Day. I am a veteran myself. It is an honor [sic] to film here in the UK."