World War Z $200 Million Production Nightmare Exposed

[CrimsonGhost56]

Incomplete script, an incoherent ending, massive re-shoots, millions of dollars in budget overages, and even a Hungarian SWAT team raid are apparently just a few of the issues plaguing Pitt's troubled production

"It was, like, wow. The ending of our movie doesn't work," Evans recalled after watching a director's cut of the blockbuster hopeful. "I believed in that moment we needed to reshoot the movie."

http://movies.yahoo.com/news/brad-pitts-world-war-z-200-million-production-203112362.html

[Glenbino]

I remember reading this article two years ago..

[JeremyHight]

So taking one book told from several different perspectives and trying to make it into a single plot with Brad Pitt at the center over a set of several movies was not easy. Gee... who would have thunk it?

[Senser81]

So taking one book told from several different perspectives and trying to make it into a single plot with Brad Pitt at the center over a set of several movies was not easy. Gee... who would have thunk it?

Yeah, I think when we discussed it 2 years ago, I thought that World War Z would be a terrible book-to-movie project because its more of a collection of short stories than an actual narrative.

[JeremyHight]

Yeah, I think when we discussed it 2 years ago, I thought that World War Z would be a terrible book-to-movie project because its more of a collection of short stories than an actual narrative.

If it was just Brad Pitt going place to place as a UN interviewer and getting each person's story, with a little narration in between and like 15 minutes per short, it could have been a solid movie. Nothing amazing probably, but it could work. Start in China, go to Brazil or India, etc. It could have been a very easy story to do. But the second you change it into a Brad Pitt vehicle where he is at the center of the action, you completely change a lot of the book.

[mgoblue2290]

Hbo miniseries. I'll take my executive producer credit now.

[KINGOFOOTBALL]

Man you know shit is bad when Lindeloff is rewriting it. Just saw prometheus ... what a great concept and possibly a original script turned into a stupid clusterfuck of a movie.
Im only on S2 of Lost and I loved Star Trek so maybe this guys bipolar.