BRAD PITT WORLD WAR Z MOVIE
Brad Pitt, Anthony Mackie, Matthew Fox, Mireille Enos, and Bryan Cranston star in the zombie movie World War Z.īecause of how the internet works, more people will see the images we just posted of Anne Hathaway as Catwoman on the set of The Dark Knight Rises. Future zombie filmmakers of the world: take note.WORLD WAR Z Set Photos. World War Z might yet be a huge hit- VF estimates that it needs to make $400 million to break even-but what went on before its release is certainly something a producer would not want to repeat. And, in a fumble that was perhaps nobody’s fault but provided plenty of bad publicity for the movie, an October 2011 shoot in Budapest ran into problems when the guns needed for the action sequence were raided by a Hungarian SWAT team. The director, Marc Forster ( Quantum of Solace), seemed to clash with many of the crew members. Pitt’s Plan B doesn’t have a huge amount of experience with movies on the scale of World War Z (one of their biggest movies to date is Eat Pray Love). Know who’s in charge. Perhaps the problem was lack of leadership: though nobody comes out and says it, a theme of Vanity Fair‘s interviews is that nobody ever-at least not until deadlines approached-stepped in and and assumed command of the out-of-control production. After shooting scenes in Malta (standing in for Israel) that involved nearly one thousand extras wearing complicated costumes-and an incident involving an unnamed actress who trashed her hotel room-someone packing up the set found purchase orders that had been stashed in a drawer, surprising producers with the news that the budget had been blown on just a small portion of the filming.
Know how much you’re spending. It helps to not misplace millions of dollars if you want to keep a movie on budget. Would Pitt be a family man or a zombie-slaughtering hero? How would it stay PG-13? And more importantly, could the ending be left open for a possible sequel? An entire action sequence, the movie’s climax, ended up getting cut and reshot, pushing the release date from December of 2012 to this summer and costing tens of millions of dollars.
When filming began in June 2011, the movie’s ending hadn’t been totally ironed out. It took two writers to fashion Brooks’ sprawling oral history into a more conventional action-movie script with a central character Pitt didn’t sign on to star until 2010.Īnd the confusion continued. Pitt-who doesn’t comment in the VF story-reportedly loved the book’s themes enough to have his production company, Plan B, outbid Leonardo DiCaprio’s production company for film rights in 2006. But turning the book into a script required the services of no less than four different screenwriters.
The source material (written by the zombie-obsessed son of Mel Brooks) is an oral history of a global outbreak of the undead-an acclaimed book but hardly cinematic in structure. Know what movie you’re making. There was confusion from the beginning. It’s a cautionary tale of how a movie that reportedly started with a budget of $150 million ends up costing up to an estimated $250 million. Read an excerpt of their exclusive here (or the whole thing in print)-particularly if you have any Hollywood aspirations. The June issue of Vanity Fair, on newsstands this week, has a compelling piece on the movie, which opens June 21. Over the past six months, reports have swirled around the Internet, describing last-minute rewrites and reshoots, as well as escalating tensions between producer-star Brad Pitt and director Marc Forster. Follow no secret that World War Z - the big-budget adaptation of Max Brooks’ 2006 zombie-horror bestseller - has been a troubled production.
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