Starring Brad Pitt in the lead, World War Z is being touted as the most expensive zombie film in Hollywood history, and after the epic first trailer landed last night, it’s promising to be one of the biggest and best films of next year.
Based on the original novel by Max Brooks, we heard back in June that Damon Lindelof (Prometheus) had been hired to re-write the third act ahead of seven weeks of re-shoots. The job ultimately fell to the great Drew Goddard (Cloverfield), and EW are reporting that part of that re-write involved setting the film up as a possible trilogy in the years to come. (Interestingly, they credit Lindelof for the rewrite, but he didn’t have time, and it was his Lost partner, Goddard, who penned it in his place.)
“Pitt plays Gerald Lane, a United Nations researcher watching civilization teeter on collapse in the...
Based on the original novel by Max Brooks, we heard back in June that Damon Lindelof (Prometheus) had been hired to re-write the third act ahead of seven weeks of re-shoots. The job ultimately fell to the great Drew Goddard (Cloverfield), and EW are reporting that part of that re-write involved setting the film up as a possible trilogy in the years to come. (Interestingly, they credit Lindelof for the rewrite, but he didn’t have time, and it was his Lost partner, Goddard, who penned it in his place.)
“Pitt plays Gerald Lane, a United Nations researcher watching civilization teeter on collapse in the...
- 11/9/2012
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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