World War Z

[Jen]

Sad. Had such high hopes for this flick

[Macready]

The casual moviegoer will eat this movie up and make it a blockbuster. PG-13 "zombies" with Brad Pitt? Guaranteed 100 mil box office take in the US alone.

[Macready]

We all know that WORLD WAR Z was a troubled project plagued by delays, reshoots, and animosity between star/producer Brad Pitt and director Marc Forster. Now that we are approaching the release of the film, details of the problems are beginning to come together into a cohesive look at just what went wrong with the film.

The latest issue of Vanity Fair magazine features a cover story about Pitt and the movie's troubled path to theaters. One of the biggest hurdles was the budget that crossed the $200 million mark and what was described as an "incoherent ending" when Paramount executives viewed a cut of the film. It was so bad that they brought in Damon Lindelof to fix it. Lindelof is quoted as saying he gave the studio two options:

"Is there material that can be written to make that stuff work better? To have it make sense? To have it have emotional stakes? And plot logic and all that? And Road Two, which I think is the long-shot road, is that everything changes after Brad leaves Israel.” That meant throwing out the entire Russian battle scene—or about 12 minutes of footage—and crafting a new ending. “I didn’t think anyone was going to say, ‘Let’s throw it out and try something else,’ ” Lindelof recalls. “So when I gave them those two roads and they sounded more interested in Road B”—which meant shooting an additional 30 to 40 minutes of the movie—“I was like, ‘To be honest with you, good luck selling that to Paramount.’ ”

http://www.joblo.com/movie-news/just...ng-world-war-z

[IrishG3nt]

We all know that WORLD WAR Z was a troubled project plagued by delays, reshoots, and animosity between star/producer Brad Pitt and director Marc Forster. Now that we are approaching the release of the film, details of the problems are beginning to come together into a cohesive look at just what went wrong with the film.

The latest issue of Vanity Fair magazine features a cover story about Pitt and the movie's troubled path to theaters. One of the biggest hurdles was the budget that crossed the $200 million mark and what was described as an "incoherent ending" when Paramount executives viewed a cut of the film. It was so bad that they brought in Damon Lindelof to fix it. Lindelof is quoted as saying he gave the studio two options:

"Is there material that can be written to make that stuff work better? To have it make sense? To have it have emotional stakes? And plot logic and all that? And Road Two, which I think is the long-shot road, is that everything changes after Brad leaves Israel.” That meant throwing out the entire Russian battle scene—or about 12 minutes of footage—and crafting a new ending. “I didn’t think anyone was going to say, ‘Let’s throw it out and try something else,’ ” Lindelof recalls. “So when I gave them those two roads and they sounded more interested in Road B”—which meant shooting an additional 30 to 40 minutes of the movie—“I was like, ‘To be honest with you, good luck selling that to Paramount.’ ”

.... damn that whole project sounds fucked!

[Chief Falling Rock]

I would say this movie looks like swamp ass, but that would be an insult to swamp ass. How about next time you by the rights to a book you atleast try to make it resemble the book in some way? Funny how this is called World War "Z" and yet no one, in the multiple trailers I've seen, has even uttered the word "zombie". What do they think Z stands for?

[FrighT MasteR]

We all know that WORLD WAR Z was a troubled project plagued by delays, reshoots, and animosity between star/producer Brad Pitt and director Marc Forster. Now that we are approaching the release of the film, details of the problems are beginning to come together into a cohesive look at just what went wrong with the film.

The latest issue of Vanity Fair magazine features a cover story about Pitt and the movie's troubled path to theaters. One of the biggest hurdles was the budget that crossed the $200 million mark and what was described as an "incoherent ending" when Paramount executives viewed a cut of the film. It was so bad that they brought in Damon Lindelof to fix it. Lindelof is quoted as saying he gave the studio two options:

"Is there material that can be written to make that stuff work better? To have it make sense? To have it have emotional stakes? And plot logic and all that? And Road Two, which I think is the long-shot road, is that everything changes after Brad leaves Israel.” That meant throwing out the entire Russian battle scene—or about 12 minutes of footage—and crafting a new ending. “I didn’t think anyone was going to say, ‘Let’s throw it out and try something else,’ ” Lindelof recalls. “So when I gave them those two roads and they sounded more interested in Road B”—which meant shooting an additional 30 to 40 minutes of the movie—“I was like, ‘To be honest with you, good luck selling that to Paramount.’ ”

http://www.joblo.com/movie-news/just...ng-world-war-z

Now I REALLY wanna see this shitty original ending

[DMHead777]

This is a god damn train wreck

[Toby]

I'll be skipping this number. Save my money for Pacific Rim instead.

[Macready]

IGN saw this and actually liked it

http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/05/...en-world-war-z

[FrighT MasteR]

I don't think I've ever read an IGN review, nor do I plan to :beard:

[Macready]

Me either I saw it in my twitter feed and couldn't believe it. I didn't read the article myself.

[Jen]

This would be much better as a miniseries. Each show could focus on a character or two. A movie? too much to cram into 2 hours.

[DMHead777]

I just want this pos to come out already so I can ignore it again

[DMHead777]

They look pretty calm despite having a horde of zombies after them

[WickedNik]

[FrighT MasteR]

That one girl must be a bit chilly

[IrishG3nt]

[Macready]

Pyro zombies

Every shot I see of this fucking movie something is on fire!

[DMHead777]

When zombies are done eating the humans, they decide to fuck with the electrical systems and gas stoves.

[Primetimeloser]

When zombies are done eating the humans, they decide to fuck with the electrical systems and gas stoves.

Yeah man that is totally how it happened in the book.