World War Z

Brad Pitt saves a girl on sets
Brad Pitt was hailed a true hero after he rescued a wounded extra, who was knocked to the ground on the set of his new movie 'World War Z'.

A large crowd of more than 700 actors was packed into Glasgow's George Square to film muddled scenes amid heavy gunfire, when the incident took place.

The woman, who stumbled and fell as the extras fled the film's terrifying invasion, was rescued from being trampled upon by hundreds of people surging through the streets during the pandemonium.

The 47-year-old Hollywood hunk grabbed the woman and pulled her back on her feet.

"It was total chaos as 700 extras were trying to get down the street - they were banging into moving cars, cameras and military who were carrying heavy machine guns," the Sun quoted an insider as saying.

'Lots of people hurt themselves, and Brad came to the rescue of a woman who slipped. I don't think she could believe it when Brad picked her up.

"He didn't have time to speak to her as it was mid-shoot. But she said afterwards how grateful she was, despite having a badly-grazed knee," the insider added.
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World War Z author Max Brooks reveals delight at watching his book become a film

AS THE world's most prominent writer of the living dead, Max Brooks is renowned as the darling of the shuffling, terrifying monsters.

But when the American author came face to face with his first moaning and howling zombie in Glasgow city centre, even he was a little taken aback.

The writer flew in to Scotland this week to visit the set of Brad Pitt's multi-million-dollar adaptation of his novel World War Z - and he could not believe just how great the movie monsters look and how crazy Scots were going for the film.

Max, 39, who is the son of screen icons Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft, was invited to Scotland to see how the film is going and spent time watching the shoot in the city's George Square before a book signing session in Glasgow.

He said: "It's incredible. Brad Pitt really conquered the city. I've never seen this much enthusiasm for a film and everyone is really excited to be working with all these people cheering and watching.

"I was on set watching a scene where Brad Pitt is running with his family, and a hundred extras running with him, and behind us was a crowd of about 500 people just watching. The assistant director said how great it would be if only we had the money to hire all the people in behind us.

"I also had lunch with the zombies and they're great. They look very much like what my impression would be of new zombies who had not really begun to rot, kind of like phase one zombies.

"They have a zombie school, where they are teaching extras how to act like zombies, and from talking to people on set they have really put a lot of research into everything.

"It was incredible to see it for myself and I'm still amazed they are making a movie of the book.

"I heard Brad Pitt had optioned the rights and I thought, 'That's cool' but it probably wouldn't ever get made because most optioned projects never do, so it was the biggest shock in the world to me when my wife showed me pictures on her computer of Brad Pitt in Malta filming World War Z.

"I'm still waiting to wake up from this one."

Brooks didn't follow in his father's acting or directing footsteps, but went into writing instead.

He started off his career in TV and documentaries, writing for Saturday Night Live, and when he was 22 he spent a winter in Speyside making a documentary about Scots mountain rescue teams for the BBC.

His Highland experiences lent themselves to Scotland's only appearance in the book World War Z, as it's revealed that the government rebuild the Antonine Wall north of Glasgow to cut off the UK population to the south along with the majority of the British contingent of zombies, ensuring the Highlands survive.

Max made his undead name eight years ago with the cult hit book, The Zombie Survival Guide.

WWZ came along three years later, following the same rules as his detailed and entertaining handbook, and quickly became a smash hit around the world, selling 600,000 copies.

Set 10 years after a zombie apocalypse, the book is comprised of interviews conducted by a UN researcher into the human stories of the war, as various countries are overrun, stage defences and finally fight back against the plague of re-animated corpses.

The zombies capture humans and eat them, with whatever is left of a corpse coming back to life to join the zombie side.

With no central characters and dozens of different short story-style reports and recollections, including the story of a Chinese nuclear sub on the run, the book was deemed unfilmable.

"There's no reason anybody should have optioned this for a movie, it does everything wrong," Max said. "It doesn't have a main character, the storyline is told from a hundred different points of view, it would be prohibitively expensive filming in all these different countries.

"You couldn't pay me to turn it into a film. All I know is they have their work cut out for them. It is the equivalent of climbing Ben Nevis on your knees.

"I'm not involved so I just want to be able to enjoy watching the movie when it comes out. At least I know they did at least as much research into things as I did for the book.

"Brad loves Glasgow and he told me how great it was to make a film in a place that is not used to it."

Max Brooks will be signing copies of World War Z and The Zombie Survival Guide in Glasgow today at Waterstone's on Sauchiehall Street at 2pm, and then at Forbidden Planet, Buchanan Street, at 5.30pm.
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Brad Pitt salva una donna sul set di “World War Z”
Non solo nei film, Brad Pitt è un eroe anche nella vita reale, ne andranno fieri i suoi sei figli e la moglie, Angelina Jolie. Delle gesta dell’attore si parlerà sicuramente spesso in questi giorni. Come ormai tutti sanno, Brad Pitt si trova a Glasgow, impegnatissimo sul set di “World War Z”, film apocalittico che coinvolge anche i vampiri.

E proprio durante una scena in cui la folla fuggiva dai vampiri, Brad Pitt ha dato prova di grande coraggio e ha salvato una donna che rischiava di finire calpestata nella ressa. L’attore stava girando una scena, quella in cui una massa di persone corre per George Square, a Glasgow, in fuga dagli zombie in arrivo. Una donna, però, è accidentalmente caduta ed ha rischiato di essere calpestata, ma prontamente Brad Pitt è arrivato in suo soccorso, lasciando perdere le riprese per tirarla fuori dal pericolo imminente.
C’erano tantissime persone sul set, tra operatori e comparse, era davvero una situazione caotica, Brad Pitt ha avuto la sveltezza di pensare che la donna fosse in pericolo, ma subito dopo tutto è tornato normale. Sembra infatti che non abbia avuto modo di parlare con lei, che le sarà molto grata, perché ha dovuto continuare con le riprese, che aveva lasciato a metà. Hollywood non si ferma davanti a niente, ma per fortuna ogni tanto qualche sprazzo di umanità se lo concede.

La donna si è fatta male al ginocchio e anche se non ha potuto parlare con Brad Pitt direttamente, ha espresso tutta la gratitudine nei suoi confronti. E lei non è stata l’unica vittima della folle corsa delle comparse. Sul set di “World War Z” la catastrofe è stata reale, e molte delle persone in fuga si son fatte seriamente male, alcune son tornate a casa con qualche osso rotto, tanto per rendere la cosa più realistica, no?

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