'World War Z's filmmakers had to deal with script rewrites, budget overruns, on-set conflicts ... oh, and a raid by an anti-terrorism unit.
The Big Picture Brad Pitt's action-packed, effects-heavy 2013 zombie apocalypse movie is one of -- if not the -- biggest budget and highest-grossing films in the genre. It's the type of movie that seems tailor-made for a franchise and even features an open-ended conclusion that screams "sequel bait.
'World War Z's Production Was Troubled from the Start Studios were fighting over the rights to adapt Brooks' novel before it was even published, with a bidding war breaking out between Pitt's production company Plan B and Leonardo DiCaprio's company Appian Way. Pitt won, of course, and along with Paramount, secured the rights to produce the film in 2006. Michael Straczynski, writer of Thor and Underworld: Awakening, soon signed on to write the screenplay.
Meanwhile, Forster's relative inexperience directing big-budget action flicks created more problems. A source told the Hollywood Reporter that as late as three weeks before filming was scheduled to start, the director still hadn't pinned down the zombies' appearance or style of movement.
The Final Action Scene Almost Landed Pitt in Hot Water The final action sequence was set to take place in Russia and would be shot in Budapest. But on the morning of October 10, 2011, a Hungarian SWAT team raided the warehouse where the crew had stored weapons to be used in filming, seizing 85 military-style assault rifles, handguns, and grenades. As a source told Us Weekly at the time, the import papers claimed that the guns had been disabled, but in reality, they were fully functional.
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