Screenwriter Damon Lindelof has been brought in to save Paramount’s zombie movie World War Z.
The big-budget movie starring Brad Pitt, who also is one of the producers, has been troubled. Its release has been pushed from December 2012 to June, 21 2013, and is awaiting significant reshoots. Lindelof, the Lost co-creator and co-author of Ridley Scott and Fox’s Prometheus, is said to be focusing on World War Z’s third act. The production hopes to begin reshoots in September or October.
World War Z, based on the 2006 novel by Max Brooks, is intended to be a zombie picture with sociological and political overtones. It also stars Mireille Enos (The Killing), James Badge Dale and Anthony Mackie.
Marc Forster is directing the movie, which shot last year in various European locales.
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Brad Pitt slams his most famous film roles
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.
World War Z Being Looked At As The First Of A Trilogy
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.”
World War Z Gets Composer Marco Beltrami
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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First World War Z still?
Just click the image for full size. You tell me. Sure looks like Brad as a roughed up Gerry Lane. Credit to Nicola. Thanks (sorry) Anu & Gabriella. Or could this be from something else? Come on, opinions guys. I suddenly got a better feeling about this zombie movie. I just can’t stop the hairstaring. Jamie I know you’re with me on this.
