World War Z

World War Z Moving Fast Toward June Start

The highly anticipated adaptation of Max Brooks' World War Z, directed by Marc Forster (Quantum of Solace), is gearing up for a June production start.

According to ScreenDaily, shooting will begin in Malta. Production will then relocate to the UK and, later, Hungary. Principal photography will last well into the fall.

Brad Pitt is still set to star as a UN researcher gathering stories of the great zombie war. The actor is also producing.

J. Michael Straczynski and Matthew Michael Carnahan penned the script.

www.shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=19364

Buone notizie in arrivo per World War Z, lo zombi-movie prodotto ed interpretato da Brad Pitt, morto e risorto nel giro di poco tempo. A quanto pare, la produzione della pellicola dovrebbe partire a stretto giro di posta nel mese di giugno. Le riprese si dovranno, inizialmente, tenere sull'Isola di Malta, per poi spostarsi in Inghilterra e Ungheria. La sessione principale delle riprese si terrà comunque in autunno inoltrato. World War Z è tratto dall'omonimo romanzo di Max Brooks (il figlio di Mel) e vedrà Brad Pitt nel doppio ruolo di protagonista e di producer tramite la sua Plan B e Marc Forster (Neverland, Vero come la finzione, 007 Quantum of Solace) in cabina di regia.
La sceneggiatura della pellicola è ad opera di J. Michael Straczynski e Matthew Michael Carnahan. Ecco cosa ha dichiarato tempo fa a proposito dello script l'autore del libro: "Ho letto la prima stesura di Straczynski ed è fottutamente buona. In quanto autore del libro so che è una sorta di sacrilegio dirlo, ma devo ammettere che è davvero buona. L'ho fatta leggere anche a mia moglie che ha detto 'Tesoro, sarà un film ottimo'". In World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War si racconta la storia immaginaria di una guerra mondiale tra umanità e morti viventi.
http://www.everyeye.it/cinema/notizia/worl...a-giugno_100102

James Badge Dale goes to 'WWZ'

"The Pacific" star James Badge Dale is going back into battle, albeit against an already-dead enemy.
Dale is in negotiations to join Brad Pitt in Paramount's "World War Z," set 10 years after a global zombie epidemic. Paramount had no comment on the casting.

Marc Forster is directing from J. Michael Straczynski and Matthew Carnahan's script, which is adapted from Max Brooks' popular novel, told in oral history form from various perspectives around the world.

Pitt will play a researcher for the U.N. Postwar Commission, while Mireille Enos of AMC's "The Killing" was previously cast as his wife, a mother of two girls.

Dale will play Capt. Speke, an American soldier who trusts his instincts and is wise beyond his years. The character tries to alert authorities that the zombie threat is real, and is stuck in a military detention center when the zombie outbreak begins.

Pitt and his Plan B shingle are producing the big-budget pic, which will be co-financed by David Ellison's Skydance Prods. Production is slated to begin this July in London, Malta and other locales overseas.
www.variety.com/article/VR1118038413?refCatId=13

Brad è arrivato a Malta dove inizierà le riprese del film

Brad arrived in Malta.
Labelled the sexiest stars in film history and attracting major global media attention, the couple who are accompanied by their six adopted and biological children, left Los Angeles yesterday evening in a Bombardier Global Express jet.

They arrived in Malta this afternoon and exited Malta International Airport in a couple of vans from the VIP area.

Brad Pitt was last in Malta in 2003 for the filming of the ancient epic Troy in which he played the mightiest of the Greeks, Achilles. This time round, he is a United Nations worker and father of two girls.

Brad Pitt is in Malta for the filming of World War Z, a movie he is producing.

Based on Max Brooks' globe-spanning novel, World War Z is set 10 years after the human victory over a worldwide zombie epidemic and tells a retrospective story about the invasion from the various viewpoints of those who survived the conflict that almost eradicated humanity.

Among the locations for the Malta shoot – the rest of the filming is in the UK – are Valletta and the Three Cities area.

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/...in-malta.370078

HOLLYWOOD superstar Brad Pitt is heading for Scotland to film a new £80million zombie movie, we can reveal today.

The big screen heart-throb will fly in after producers transform parts of Glasgow into a war-torn ruin for blockbuster World War Z. The movie will be one of the biggest film shoots ever seen in Scotland.

Scenes being shot in the city centre will feature explosions and gunfire as Brad, 47, battles to stop zombies taking over the world.

Glasgow will double for the US city of Philadelphia, with false shop fronts being constructed and American cars on the roads.

Streets around George Square will be closed in August as shooting begins and the square itself will be the base for the film crew and actors.

Producers plan to erect a tented village, complete with huge trailers for Brad and his co-stars.

Sources say he will spend two weeks shooting in Glasgow

An insider said: "The whole thing has been shrouded in secrecy but it had to come out at some point.

"The film is a big thing for Glasgow and the whole of Scotland. It will provide a big boost to the economy.

"The good news is that Brad will be right at the centre of the action... and there will be plenty of action.

"It should be pretty spectacular and, as it is happening in August, we can at least hope there won't be too many weather delays."

The Casting Collective have been advertising for zombie extras in Glasgow but hopefuls did not realise the scale of the movie they were auditioning for.

It is believed World War Z could be worth more than £1.5million to the Scottish economy.

The movie is being produced by Brad's Plan B Entertainment production company for Paramount Pictures.

They won the rights after a fierce bidding war with Leonardo Di Caprio's production company Appian Way. Brad also takes lead acting duties on the film, based on Max Brooks' horror novel.

Scripts based on a screenplay by J. Michael Straczynski have already leaked on the internet leading to speculation that the film will be in the running for a Best Picture Oscar.

The action takes place in the aftermath of a huge zombie uprising which leads to a world war.

Most of the action will be shot in the streets surrounding George Square, chosen because of their likeness to Philadelphia.

According to industry rumours, some of the action will also be shot in Malta and at London's Pinewood studios.

Another source said: "There has been an international scouting operation looking for streets which resemble American city centres.

"They are looking at places like St Vincent Street, which will be closed off when filming takes place.

"The cast and crew will be based in George Square and they are planning to build a tented village there."

The Casting Collective, who are behind the zombie search, last night said they were unable to comment on the movie.
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/2011/06/12/bi...86908-23196413/

Synopsis

" 'World War Z' follows United Nations employee Gerry Lane (Brad Pitt) as he tries to stop a global Zombie pandemic. With armies crumbling and governments rendered useless, Gerry must head out into a hellish and gruesome new world to find allies in his cause. In each country he visits, he learns new information about the origin and habits of the Zombies (or Zs as they're now called) and begins to build a plan to destroy them. Throughout his odyssey, Gerry longs to be reunited with his wife and children. But there's something he has to do first... Save the human race."

www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/24711

L'attore James Badge Dale è entrato a far parte del cast di World War Z, nuovo film targato Paramount Pictures che sarà diretto da Marc Forster e tratto da un romanzo di Max Brooks, il figlio di Mel Brooks e Anne Bancroft. World War Z narra il diffondersi di una spaventosa epidemia che da uno sperduto paesino cinese si diffonde in tutto il mondo. I contagiati si trasformano in famelici zombie, e James Badge Dale è stato chiamato a interpretare un militare che sarà tra i primi ad affrontare la minacciosa invasione dei morti viventi.
Brad Pitt farà parte del cast del film nel ruolo di un ricercatore, e attualmente anche Mireille Enos e Anthony Mackie sono in trattative per aggiungersi al cast della pellicola, le cui riprese partiranno a breve, con una release prevista per l'estate del 2012.
http://www.movieplayer.it/film/news/james-...ld-war-z_17127/

Matthew Fox, Ed Harris in World War Z

Matthew Fox and Ed Harris are in talks to join Brad Pitt, Mireille Enos and James Badge Dale in the Marc Forster-directed World War Z for Paramount and Skydance Productions. Forster has also set Julia Levy-Boeken, the French actress who stars in the Israeli series alufa Ha. The film is an adaptation of the Max Brooks novel that looks back on a global zombie infestation 10 years after the fact. Fox, who just wrapped a West End stage turn in the Neil LaBute play In a Forest Dark and Deep, is separately slated to play a vicious serial killer opposite Tyler Perry in the Rob Cohen-directed I, Alex Cross for Summit Entertainment, with production starting in August. Harris just starred in the Asger Leth-directed Man on a Ledge for Summit. Fox is repped by WME and Management 360, Harris by CAA and Levy-Boeken by Weiner Management.

http://www.deadline.com/2011/06/matthew-fo...ld-war-z-talks/




Edited by Jesse Logan - 15/6/2011, 01:55

Ed Harris e Matthew Fox sono in trattative per affiancare Brad Pitt, Mireille Enos e James Badge Dale in World War Z, la nuova pellicola di Marc Forster incentrata sull’apocalisse degli zombie.
Le riprese del film, adattamento del romanzo di Max Brooks (figlio dei grandi Mel Brooks e Anne Bancroft), inizieranno entro qualche giorno con un budget da centoventicinque milioni di dollari.
Pitt interpreterà un ricercatore delle Nazioni Unite incaricato di studiare gli effetti del virus che dieci anni prima ha colpito la popolazione mondiale, trasformando quasi tutti in morti viventi. Harris e la star di Lost interpreteranno alcuni dei sopravvissuti all’evento.
La pellicola arriverà sugli schermi nell’estate 2012.

http://www.alphabetcity.it/index.php/com/a...eme-a-brad-pitt

Brad Pitt: 'World War Z' Set!
Brad Pitt shoots scenes for his upcoming movie World War Z on Wednesday (June 15) on St. Dominic Street in Valletta, Malta.

The 47-year-old actor was joined on set by cinematographer Robert Richardson to film scenes with two zombies, a dozen soldiers, and extras running and screaming all over the place.

World War Z follows Max Brooks (Pitt) who “scours the world collecting the stories and experiences of those who have survived the conflict that almost eradicated humanity.”

altre foto, other pics
http://justjared.buzznet.com/photo-gallery...d-war-z-set-03/

Iniziate le riprese di World War Z, ecco Brad Pitt a Malta.
Era la fine di marzo quando come un fulmine a ciel sereno vi avevamo annunciato che la produzione di World War Z era ben più avanti del previsto e che le riprese sarebbero iniziate già nel mese di giugno.

Tabella di marcia perfettamente rispettata e arrivano già le prime foto da La Valletta (Malta), il primo set della pellicola diretta da Marc Forster (Neverland, Quantum of Solace). Si tratta dell’adattamento cinematografico del romanzo di Max Brooks World War Z, conosciuto in Italia come La guerra Mondiale degli Zombie, la cui sceneggiatura è stata scritta da Matt Carnahan, il creatore della serie tv Dirt.

Nelle immagini possiamo vedere il protagonista del kolossal Brad Pitt appena arrivato sull’isola del Mediterraneo dove tra l’altro ha girato qualche anno fa anche Troy.

Confermati nel cast anche Mireille Enos e James Badge Dale mentre proprio ieri vi abbiamo dato la notizia che Matthew Fox e Ed Harris sono attualmente in trattative per ruoli non ancora specificati
http://blog.screenweek.it/2011/06/iniziate...alta-128224.php

Brad Pitt to blow up a Maltese bus during World War Z filming

Heartthrob Brad Pitt wants to blow up a Maltese bus as part of the filming of World War Z, sources told www.di-ve.com.
Pitt arrived in Malta a week ago to scout for locations. Currently the crew is filming at Zammit Clapp Hospital.

Based on novel by Max Brooks, World War Z is about the human victory over a worldwide zombie epidemic.

Exploding bus scenes have been a very common feature in recently produced thrillers, with the long list including blockbusters like Speed, Iron Man, the Fugitive and Transformers, amongst others.

It will not be difficult for Pitt to find a typical Maltese bus given that the government will soon have around 150 old buses in hand following the July 3rd public transport hand over to Arriva.
www.di-ve.com/Default.aspx?ID=72&Action=1&NewsId=84120

World War Z Set

altre foto, other pics
http://justjared.buzznet.com/photo-gallery...tunt-double-05/