Brad Pitt’s ‘insane’ World War Z budget

By Tribute News on May 1, 2013 | Leave a Comment

Brad Pitt's World War Z zombie movie cost around $200 million to make after requiring an extra 40 minutes of footage be shot in order to give it a coherent ending. At the end of production for the film in Malta, the crew found a number of purchase orders totaling millions of dollars that had been forgotten about. Marc Evans, President of Production at Paramount, calls the oversight an "unthinkable action." He explained to Vanity Fair: "It was literally insane. Adam [Goodman, President of the Paramount Film Group] and I believed we'd gotten out of Malta good, and I found out we weren't. That is a nightmare." Marc also said when the initial director's cut was shown, the room was left silent. He said: "It was, like, Wow. The ending of our movie doesn't work. I believed in that moment we needed to re-shoot the movie." Screenwriter Damon Lindelof admits the budget spiraled out of control because of Pitt's initial desire to contain as many aspects of the original book, 'World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War', as he could. "But when we started working on the script, a lot of that stuff had to fall away for the story to come together. We started shooting the thing before we locked down how it was going to end up, and it didn't turn out the way we wanted it to."

---

---

1. There are no comments yet, why not be the first?

---