14 DAY TRIAL // Brad Pitt’s next movie, “World War Z,” is perhaps also the biggest risk he’s taken so far in his career. Produced by his Plan B, the post-apocalyptic flick spent almost 2 years in production hell, which is emphasized by the latest Vanity Fair piece as well.
Though Pitt is on the cover (see the image attached to this article), the piece is not an interview or a regular celebrity profile, but rather an expose on how “World War Z” turned out to be a “nightmare” to make, requiring extensive re-writes and reshoots, and a budget that easily topped $200 million (€153.5 million).
If Pitt ever needed a movie to be a hit at the box office, this one is it.
Oddly enough, the VF piece doesn’t include Marc Forster’s point of view (the director of the film), which could mean he’s being turned into a scapegoat for why the project went off track the way it did.
Not long ago, word had it that Pitt wasn’t even speaking to Foster when they went back on set for reshoots. So there’s that.
Instead, it includes statements from screenwriter Damon Lindelof (“Lost,” “Prometheus”), and Paramount executives Marc Evans and Adam Goodman.
For those not up to speed, “World War Z” is what Pitt recently described as a passion project, in that he wanted to make a film his boys could see. They love zombies.
It took him years to finally get approval for it. After shooting wrapped, they realized they did not have a convincing ending, so they went back to reshoot about 40 minutes of film – which, of course, required re-writes.
The first trailers feature a bunch of very unconvincing CGI zombies, which has already upset fans of the book but we’ll see how it turns out this June, when it arrives in theaters.