The film star has criticised some of his most well-known film roles

He may be one of Hollywood’s most respected male stars but Brad Pitt has delivered a damning verdict of some of his most famous film roles.

Pitt, who was in Glasgow last summer filming Zombie flick World War Z, has laid into some of his much loved performances, saying he “flatlined” and “flunked”.

Speaking of his Oscar nominated role in Twelve Monkeys, Pitt said: “I think I was forced on Terry (Gilliam). I got the first half dead-on but I flunked the second.”

In an interview with a newspaper, he was even more scathing of his starring role in the 1998 film Meet Joe Black, saying: “I flatlined in that one.”

Pitt said he felt “miscast” in the Hollywood epic Interview with the Vampire, in which he starred alongside Tom Cruise and Christian Slater.

And on one of his first lead roles as a cowboy in Ridley Scott’s Thelma and Louise, he said: “That was the first time I was let into the show. I remember thinking, ‘oh that’s how I come off.’ I felt I could have had more weight.

Even though he spoke negatively about some of his most famous film roles, Pitt refused to say a bad word about the critically-panned 2005 release Mr and Mrs Jones, where he met his future partner, Angelina Jolie.

He said: “That was a monumental change for more reasons than one, six plus one, to be exact. I think the film has merit too. It’s really good fun,” he said.

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If it hasn’t already been made abundantly clear, Hollywood loves franchises and sequels. Whether prudent or not, studios will do everything in their power to produce sequels to movies that may not necessarily need them. And it stars in pre-production too. The Hunger Games and Twilight were so appealing to the movie industry not just because of book sales but because they came prepackaged as a potential trilogy.

World War Z, however, was not that. While certainly epic, Max Brook’s “oral history of the zombie war” was entirely contained in one book – and it’s a great book at that. But now that there’s a movie adaptation in the works, directed by Marc Forster and set to be released this December, apparently that story has changed.

An article from the Los Angeles Times has revealed that both Forster and Paramount Pictures are seeing World War Z not just as a one-and-done, but as a full trilogy. While the article doesn’t go into depth about how the story would be split up (or if the entire trilogy will be taken from the book or new stories will be created) the goal is apparently to “have the grounded, gun-metal realism of, say, Damon’s Jason Bourne series tethered to the unsettling end-times vibe of AMC’s The Walking Dead.”

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Composer Marco Beltrami has signed on to create the score for World War Z. This will be his first time working with director Marc Forster.

Brad Pitt stars in World War Z, an adaptation of Max Brooks’ novel, which centers on a United Nations employee (Brad Pitt) who travels the world interviewing survivors of a global zombie infestation. Mierelle Amos, Bryan Cranston, Matthew Fox, James Badge Dale also star in World War Z.

Marc Forster is directing World War Z from a script by Matthew Michael Carnahan and J. Michael Straczynski, adapted from the Max Brooks novel.

Marco Beltrami has also been set to compose the scores for upcoming projects such as A Good Day to Die Hard and Paradise Lost.

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robwmay Rob May
And Im done, WWZ finished. Kinda sad.
4 Nov

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“Needs more Morse.” That’s what a friend of mine said after a screening of Drive Angry 3D, which used the veteran character David Morse quite poorly. And that’s what you say pretty much after any appearance by David Morse, no matter how large or small his role is. He could star in a remake of 127 Hours, be onscreen every second, and I’d still probably think he deserved more screentime. He’s just that kind of actor.

Which is why it’s nothing but good news to learn that Morse is a late addition to the cast of World War Z, the sprawling zombie apocalypse drama currently filming with Brad PItt in the starring role. Deadline writes that Morse will play a prisoner living in an abandoned jail, presumably a jail abandoned when the zombie outbreak worsened and there was no one around to keep things running. Based on my fairly vague memory of World War Z I don’t remember any character like this in Max Brooks’s original book, but it sounds mighty similar to a sequence in Stephen King’s The Stand, a book I read at least 10 years ago but that has stuck with me indelibly.

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Eighty five weapons stored in a warehouse intended for use in Brad Pitt’s “World War Z” film were seized by a SWAT team near Budapest in Hungary on Monday, because they had not been suitably modified according to the Hungarian law, authorities said Tuesday.

The weapons were discovered at a nearby duty free zone, which were shipped from London to Budapest’s Ferenc Liszt Airport near Pitt’s film set on Saturday, Janos Hajdu, who is the director of Hungary’s Anti-terrorism Center, said.

The paperwork accompanying the weapons, including machine guns, rifles and pistols, claimed they were non-functional, although they were in fact fully working military-style assault rifles. He said he could not confirm they were intended for Pitt film.

“It’s possible that all the weapons were brought in for the film, but this would not be allowed by Hungarian law,” as the weapons had not been irreversible and could still be used to fire live ammunition, Hajdu said on Neo FM radio. “This is a very complicated case.”

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