{"id":3616,"date":"2012-07-16T10:55:22","date_gmt":"2012-07-16T16:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?p=3616"},"modified":"2012-07-16T10:55:23","modified_gmt":"2012-07-16T16:55:23","slug":"wordl-war-z-spirals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?p=3616","title":{"rendered":"Wordl War Z Spirals"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Marc Forster has done some great movies and some which fell apart \u2014 cough, Quantum of Solace, cough \u2014 and it appears his adaptation of Max Brooks\u2019 zombie apocalypse novel World War Z is heading towards that latter category. It stars Brad Pitt and is produced by Pitt\u2019s company, Plan B Entertainment. Unfortunately, the production\u2019s been plagued with problems we\u2019ll list in a moment. The newest problem? Brad Pitt and the director are not speaking to each other, even though the film still has at least three weeks of reshoots to finish.<\/p>\n

Things got so bad that when Forster had notes on a scene for Pitt, they had to be relayed through an intermediary \u2014 and vice versa. […] And all this as the production crests $170 million as it heads into its costly reshoots, with an ending that is still in flux. [Vulture]<\/p>\n

This comes after Brad Pitt fought to have Forster hired to direct. What happened between then and now? Well, numerous problems, it turns out:<\/p>\n

The film was rushed into production in July 2011 in order to make a Christmas 2012 release date, even though the script wasn\u2019t entirely ready. This speed proved for naught, as when both Paramount execs and Pitt became unhappy with how some of the big action set pieces were turning out, especially one at the end of the film that wasn\u2019t cutting together properly, the studio decided to bump the film\u2019s release until June of 2013. And in May, it was announced that Z would be returning to Budapest to shoot several weeks of additional material as well as reshoot some original scenes. […] Last month, Lost exec producer and Prometheus scriptwriter Damon Lindelof was brought in to watch the movie and make suggestions to Paramount on what fixes were needed. […] Problem is, sources tell us that Lindelof said the script needed months of work, not days \u2014 something he didn\u2019t have time for \u2014 and changes were needed throughout the film, not just at the end. [Vulture]<\/p>\n

Vulture has even more on this collapsing souffle of a movie. Complicating matters is that Pitt has final approval on any rewrites, so the director can\u2019t shoot anything until Pitt approves. And they\u2019re allegedly not speaking. Yikes.<\/p>\n

Another underlying problem behind this whole kerfuffle is that they started shooting before the script was even finished, and the script they used veered drastically from Brooks\u2019 popular book. Instead of following the long-term aftermath of a global zombie outbreak, they started filming yet another movie about trying to stop a global outbreak, with a possibly happy ending to boot. Why even buy the rights to something if you don\u2019t want to adapt it? Burnsy wrote an awesome rant about this here. I\u2019ll stop talking smack about it now, because I\u2019ve heard what Brad Pitt does when you talk too much:<\/p>\n

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