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World War Z pushed back six months to Summer 2013

15 Mar

If you’re one of those eagerly awaiting the film of Max Brooks’ World War Z, then sadly, you’ve got a bit more of a wait on your hands.

The movie, which stars Brad Pitt, with Marc Forster directing, was shot last year, and had been scheduled for release on 21st December 2012 in the US.

But, perhaps scared away by the slightly less than expected box office take of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo last Christmas (its darker material didn’t really fit with the Christmas movie crowd), Paramount has elected to move the film back to summer 2013. It already has its Star Trek sequel scheduled for that summer, too.

The US release date for World War Z will now be June 21st 2013. Into its Christmas 2012 slot moves the Tom Cruise vehicle, One Shot, which is the first of the Jack Reacher films, based on the books by Lee Childs. Paramount and Tom Cruise did well with a Christmas release last year for Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol so that’s almost certainly part of its thinking here. One Shot has now taken the 21st December release slot.

Brad Pitt: ‘World War Z is planned as a trilogy’

4 Jan

Brad Pitt has revealed that Paramount Pictures is planning World War Z as a trilogy.

Director Marc Forster intends to produce three films in his zombie apocalypse epic.

“Like I said, I like mixing it up,” Pitt told the Los Angeles Times from the set of World War Z.

“You need to make it interesting for yourself to make it interesting for other people.”

A piece on Pitt’s evolving career in The L.A. Times had this little nugget buried in it, talking about what World War Z could mean for both Pitt and the studio releasing it:

For Pitt, the big sci-fi thriller also represents his strongest bid to have a big film franchise of his own, which might be viewed as the missing piece of his career jigsaw puzzle. Forster and Paramount Pictures each view World War Z as a trilogy that would have the grounded, gun-metal realism of, say, [Matt] Damon’s Jason Bourne series tethered to the unsettling end-times vibe of AMC’s The Walking Dead.
It makes sense: Paramount is spending more on World War Z—which now follows Pitt’s United Nations fact finder who races, Contagion-style, to stop the spread of the zombie pandemic—than anyone’s ever spent on a zombie movie before. They’re going to want to milk it for as much as they can.

World War Z has been adapted from Max Brooks’ novel of the same name.

The movie will star Pitt as a United Nations employee who travels the world in a bid to prevent the spread of a zombie plague.

The cast also features Mireille Enos, Daniella Kertesz, James Badge Dale, Matthew Fox and David Morse.

Forster has described Pitt as “inspiring”.

World War Z will open in cinemas on December 21.

World War Z’s zombie rampage set video

6 Sep

How will the movie adaptation of Max Brooks World War Z differ from the hoards of undead films before it? How about break dancing zombies? Watch as an infected man twitches into undead death from the WWZ set!

Someone managed to capture this insane zombie attack while WWZ was filming in Glasglow. What have we learned from this footage? One, the zombies are fast. Two, they’re angry. Three, the victim’s zombie change-over rate from bite to full member of the undead appears to be very fast, and quite violent. So, Brooks loyalists. Are you not entertained? Or is this movie still zombie blasphemy?

Video footage from World War Z Set in Glasgow

23 Aug

Brad Pitt to film ‘World War Z’ scenes in Cornwall?

12 Jul

Brad Pitt’s upcoming zombie drama World War Z may film some scenes in Falmouth, Cornwall.

Paramount Pictures is currently in negotiations with the Falmouth council in order to film boat scenes off the Cornish coast.

Pitt has already filmed scenes in Malta, and may also be travelling to Glasgow for production.

Falmouth town manager Richard Gates told Western Morning News that he is excited about the prospect of the movie being filmed in Cornwall.

“This is a major coup for Falmouth and we’re pulling out all the stops to prepare for the influx of crew and cast,” he said.

“We’ve been working closely behind the scenes with Paramount Pictures and are working hard with regards to the necessary planning and permissions.”

The film is based on Max Brooks’s novel World War Z: An Oral History Of The Zombie War, and revolves around the aftermath of a war between zombies and humans.

Matthew Fox and Ed Harris were previously attached to the project, but have since dropped out. The film is expected to be released in 2012

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