World War Z
World War Z
Directed by Marc Forster
Produced by Brad Pitt
Dede Gardner
Jeremy Kleiner
Ian Bryce
Screenplay by Matthew Michael Carnahan
Drew Goddard
Damon Lindelof
Story by Matthew Michael Carnahan
J. Michael Straczynski
Based on World War Z
by Max Brooks
Starring Brad Pitt
Mireille Enos
James Badge Dale
Matthew Fox
Music by Marco Beltrami
Matthew Bellamy
(additional)
Cinematography Ben Seresin
Editing by Roger Barton
Matt Chesse
Studio Skydance Productions
Hemisphere Media Capital
GK Films
Plan B Entertainment
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release date(s)
June 2, 2013 (London, premiere)
June 21, 2013 (United States)
Running time 116 minutes[1]
Country United Kingdom
United States
Language English
Budget $190 million[2][3]
Box office $538,297,680[4]
World War Z is a 2013 British-American apocalyptic film directed by Marc Forster. The screenplay by Matthew Michael Carnahan is based on the 2006 novel of the same name by Max Brooks. The film stars Brad Pitt as Gerry Lane, a former United Nations investigator who must travel the world to find a way to stop a zombie-like pandemic.[5]
Pitt's Plan B Entertainment secured the film rights in 2007 and Forster was approached to direct. In 2009, Carnahan was hired to rewrite the script to the film. Filming began in July 2011 in Malta on an estimated $125 million budget, before moving to Glasgow in August 2011 and Budapest in October 2011. Originally set for a December 2012 release, the production suffered some setbacks. In June 2012, the film's release date was pushed back and the crew returned to Budapest for seven weeks of additional shooting. Damon Lindelof was hired to rewrite the third act, but did not have the time to finish the script and Drew Goddard was hired to rewrite it. The reshoots took place between September and October 2012.
World War Z premiered in London on June 2, 2013, and was chosen to open the 35th Moscow International Film Festival. The film was released on June 21, 2013, in the United States in 2D and RealD 3D. The film was a commercial success, grossing over $530 million on a $190 million budget while about two-thirds of its reviews were positive. A sequel was cancelled during the film's troubled filming process, but is now in development once again.
Contents [hide]
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production
3.1 Development
3.2 Pre-production
3.3 Filming
3.4 Post-production
4 Music
5 Release
6 Reception
6.1 Box office
6.2 Critical reaction
6.3 Home media
7 Video game
8 Sequels
9 References
10 External links
Plot[edit]
Former UN employee Gerry Lane (Brad Pitt), his wife Karin (Mireille Enos) and their two daughters, Rachel and Constance, sit in heavy Philadelphia traffic when the city is attacked by hordes of zombies. As the chaos spreads, the Lanes escape the city in a stolen RV and arrive at Newark, New Jersey. After stocking up on asthma medicine for Rachel at a chaotic supermarket pharmacy, they take refuge in an apartment unit, home to another couple with a young boy named Tommy. Deputy Secretary-General Thierry Umutoni (Fana Mokoena)—an old friend of Gerry's—calls and tells the family that he is sending a helicopter to rescue them.
The helicopter extracts the Lanes and Tommy (who followed them after he escaped his infected parents) from the building to a fleet of U.S. Navy vessels off the coast of New York City, where scientists and military personnel analyze the scope of the worldwide outbreaks. A virologist, Dr. Andrew Fassbach (Elyes Gabel), argues that the plague is a virus, whose origin must be found in order for a vaccine to be developed. Because of his expertise as a former UN investigator, Gerry is tasked with helping Fassbach find the outbreak's source. After being given the ultimatum of either assisting the investigation or having him and his family removed from the vessel, Gerry reluctantly agrees to help and is sent to Camp Humphreys, a military base in South Korea.
Moments after arriving at the base, Gerry's team is attacked by zombies. An armed Fassbach panics, turns to head back up the ramp, but slips and falls, and thus accidentally shoots himself dead. After being rescued by the base's surviving personnel led by Captain Speke (James Badge Dale), Gerry learns that the zombies are attracted to noise and the only way to stop them is to shoot them in their heads. He also learns the base doctor was infected and started to spread the infection before being incinerated by a soldier with a lame leg who was ignored by the infected. A former CIA operative (David Morse) is a surviving prisoner at the base, tells Gerry to go to Jerusalem, where the Israeli Mossad have established a safe zone just before the outbreak was officially acknowledged, implying Israel might have had prior knowledge of what was to come. As Gerry and his team bike stealthily to the plane, Karin calls him through his satellite phone, activating a loud ringtone that attracts the zombies. The zombies attack and kill several of the soldiers, including Captain Speke, who commits suicide to prevent himself from turning, while they cover Gerry and his pilot during the escape.
In Jerusalem, Gerry meets Director of Mossad Jurgen Warmbrunn (Ludi Boeken), who explains that the Mossad had months earlier intercepted communications from an army general in India, who stated that Indian troops were fighting the "rakshasa," or "dead spirits." With this knowledge, the city quarantined itself. Jurgen then takes Gerry to the gates of the walls that were built by the Israelis after quarantining the city. The Israelis are allowing any survivors in to seek refuge inside the city. However, after hearing the loud singing and celebrations of the refugees within, the thousands of zombies outside begin forming massive piles like army ants, running and climbing over one another in an attempt to climb over the wall. Eventually, the zombies succeed in breaching the wall, and panic erupts everywhere as the infection spreads, with the military soon being overwhelmed. Jurgen orders Gerry's escorts to accompany him to his airplane. During their escape, Gerry notices that an old man and an emaciated boy were ignored by the zombies. While fighting the horde, Gerry's escort, an Israeli soldier who identifies herself only as "Segen" (Daniella Kertesz), is bitten by a zombie. Gerry quickly amputates her hand to stop the spread of the infection. Gerry and Segen are eventually forced to escape Israel on an airliner when Gerry's pilot panics and flies away as the city population was left for dead.
Contacting Thierry, the pilots are diverted and set course for a WHO research facility in Cardiff, Wales. While in the air, a stowaway zombie escapes into the main cabin and attacks the passengers. The plane crashes after Gerry detonates a grenade to blow out all the zombies, the damage causing the pilots to lose control. Believing that Gerry has perished in the crash, Karin, Rachel, and Constance are removed from the vessel by the military, as they are no longer considered "essential personnel." Segen and Gerry proceed on foot as the only apparent survivors, although Gerry is critically injured after being impaled by aircraft debris in the crash. He loses consciousness upon arrival at the facility.
Three days later, Gerry awakens inside the main building of the facility and meets with the surviving staff. Gerry reveals a theory he has, based on the fact that the lame soldier, old man and the sickly boy were ignored: the infected do not bite people who are seriously injured or already terminally ill, since they would be unsuitable hosts for viral reproduction. To test the theory someone would need to be infected with a pathogen from the facility. However, the wing of the building in which the pathogens are stored was overrun by zombies after a doctor accidentally infected himself. Gerry decides to go get a pathogen regardless, while Segen and the lead WHO doctor accompany him for backup. They fight their way through the zombies, and although Gerry is separated from Segen and the doctor (who were forced to return to the main building), he reaches the pathogen vault. After getting cornered inside the vault by a lone zombie, Gerry's only course of action is to perform an impromptu test of his theory. He injects himself with a completely unknown bacteria and opens the vault door— the zombie ignores him and later the entire horde runs past him. After he makes it back to the safe main building, everyone rejoices at his theory's success, and they restock their supplies and journey to an extraction point.
Gerry returns to his family (who have adopted Tommy), now relocated off the ship and to a safe zone in Freeport, Nova Scotia. A "vaccine" derived from deadly pathogens is developed that acts as camouflage for the troops battling the infected, and fleeing survivors can now cross zombie-infested areas with ease to quarantine zones. Human offensives begin against the zombies, and hope is restored. Gerry comments, "This isn't the end. Not even close. Our war has just begun."
Cast[edit]
Brad Pitt as Gerry Lane, a former United Nations investigator who is coerced into returning in order to investigate the pandemic that is spiralling out of control across the globe.[6]
Mireille Enos as Karin Lane, Gerry's wife and mother of their two children.[7]
Fana Mokoena as Thierry Umutoni, the UN Deputy Secretary-General.
Daniella Kertesz as an Israeli soldier known only as "Segen", who accompanies Gerry when he leaves Israel.
James Badge Dale as Captain Speke, a U.S. Army Ranger stationed at Camp Humphreys, South Korea.[8]
David Morse as a former CIA operative imprisoned at Camp Humphreys for selling weapons to North Korea.[9]
Ludi Boeken as Jurgen Warmbrunn, the Director of Mossad; responsible for preparing Israel's pre-emptive defences.
Matthew Fox as a U.S. Navy SEAL sent by Thierry Umutoni to rescue the Lanes in Newark.[10]
Abigail Hargrove as Rachel Lane, Gerry and Karin's elder daughter.[11]
Sterling Jerins as Constance Lane, Gerry and Karin's younger daughter.
Fabrizio Zacharee Guido as Tommy, a young boy who is rescued by the Lane family in Newark after his parents are infected.
Nikola Djuricko as Captain of "Belorus Airways".
Additionally, Peter Capaldi, Pierfrancesco Favino, Ruth Negga and Moritz Bleibtreu portray WHO researchers. Ernesto Cantu and Vicky Araico play Tommy's parents, David Andrews plays U.S. Navy Captain Mullenaro,[12] Elyes Gabel plays Dr. Andrew Fassbach,[13] Grégory Fitoussi plays a military pilot,[14] Yaniv Rokah plays an Israeli soldier,[15] Lucy Aharish plays a young Palestinian woman,[16] and Julia Levy-Boeken plays an Israeli refugee.[10]
Production[edit]
Development[edit]
"This whole thing started because I just wanted to do a film that my boys could see before they turned 18 — one that they would like, anyways. And they love a zombie."
— Pitt on his involvement in the film[17]
After a bidding war with Leonardo DiCaprio's production company Appian Way, Brad Pitt's Plan B Entertainment secured the screen rights to the novel in 2007.[18] The screenplay was written by Babylon 5 and Rising Stars creator J. Michael Straczynski, who identified the challenge in adapting the work as "creating a main character out of a book that reads as a UN Report on the zombie wars."[19] Marc Forster signed on to direct, and described the film as reminiscent of 1970s conspiracy thrillers like All the President's Men.[20] Straczynski, however, identified 2002 spy film The Bourne Identity as an appropriate comparison, and noted that the film would have a large international scope which maintained the political emphasis.[21] When asked about his involvement with the film, author Max Brooks stated that he had "zero control", but favored a role for Brad Pitt,[22] and expressed approval for Straczynski as screenwriter.[23][24] Brooks said: "I can't give it away, but Straczynski found a way to tie it all together. The last draft I read was amazing."[25]
An early script was leaked onto the Internet in March 2008. Ain't It Cool News' review of the script called it "[not] just a good adaptation of a difficult book [but] a genre-defining piece of work that could well see us all arguing about whether or not a zombie movie qualifies as 'Best Picture' material". The review also noted the film appears stylistically similar to Children of Men, following Gerry Lane as he travels the post-war world and interviews survivors of the zombie war who are "starting to wonder if survival is a victory of any kind."[26] Straczynski had hoped that the film would begin production by the start of 2009.[21] In March 2009, Forster said that the script was still in development and he was not sure if World War Z would be his next film.[27] Later in March, rumors surfaced that production offices were set up and the film was in early pre-production.[28] In June 2009, Marc Forster told an interviewer that the film would be delayed, stating that the film's script still needs a lot of development and is "still far from realization".[29]
In July 2009, Brooks revealed that the script was being re-written by Matthew Michael Carnahan. Brooks believed that this "show[ed] [the producer's] confidence in this project" because of the amount of money that was being invested in it.[30] Paramount Pictures and UTV Motion Pictures announced at the 2010 Comic-Con that Forster was set as director, and Brad Pitt was confirmed to play the lead role.[31] In March 2011, it was reported that Paramount was searching for co-financier, and would likely pull the plug on the adaptation without one.[32] The article also stated that "an eleventh-hour effort is being made to court frequent Paramount co-financier David Ellison." A week later, it was reported that "hot and heavy talks are going on with David Ellison's Skydance and as many as two other financiers."[33]
Pre-production[edit]
Pre-production began in April 2011 with Robert Richardson announced as the cinematographer.[34] In the same month it was reported that filming locations would include Pinewood Studios and London, England.[35] Also in April, Mireille Enos was cast as Brad Pitt’s wife and mother of their two children.[7] In June 2011, James Badge Dale entered negotiations to join the film as an American soldier who tries to alert authorities that the zombie threat is real.[8] It was also reported that filming would begin in Malta in July 2011 and would encompass Valletta and The Three Cities.[36] A few days later Matthew Fox and Ed Harris entered talks while Julia Levy-Boeken was set to join the film.[10] The same day Lucy Aharish joined the cast as a young Palestinian woman.[16] It was also reported that filming would also take place in Glasgow, Scotland in August 2011.[37] Glasgow would double as Philadelphia, "with false shop fronts being constructed and American cars on the roads."[38] The city was reportedly chosen after "many months looking for the perfect city centre location to play an important part in the film."[37] Philadelphia was passed on due to "uncertainties about state tax credits for filmmakers."[39] Filming was originally planned to take place in Royal Tunbridge Wells, England before moving to Glasgow.[40] Later in June, visual effects house Cinesite announced that it would work on “a significant amount of shots”.[41] At the end of the month it was reported that neither Matthew Fox nor Ed Harris would be starring in the film despite previous reports: Fox had a scheduling conflict stemming from his prior commitment to star in Alex Cross with Tyler Perry at Summit Entertainment.[42] Fox was later spotted, filming scenes in Falmouth, Cornwall.[43]
Filming[edit]
Filming in Glasgow, August 2011
On a budget of $125 million,[32] World War Z began principal photography in July 2011 in Malta, with the first images of production being released a few days later.[6] Filming was set to move to Glasgow, Scotland in August with the production company looking to recruit 2,000 local extras for the shoot.[44] At least 3,000 people showed up at a casting call in Glasgow on July 9, hoping for the opportunity to appear in a scene set in a financial district in Philadelphia.[45] Scenes were also shot in Falmouth, Cornwall.[46] Also in July 2011, Game of Thrones actor Elyes Gabel was cast as a character named Fassbach.[13]
In August 2011, Bryan Cranston entered negotiations to join the film in a "small but flashy" role, but had to drop out due to scheduling conflicts. Also in August, filming was set to take place along a road on the perimeter of the Grangemouth Refinery in Grangemouth, Scotland. The location was chosen for the length of the road which is crucial to the shot.[47] A few days later Paramount announced the film would be released on December 21, 2012.[48] Later in the same month, filming began in Glasgow. The location manager for the film said Glasgow had been chosen because of its architecture, wide roads and grid layout.[49] Scenes were also filmed aboard the Royal Fleet Auxiliary ship RFA Argus, before the Glasgow shoot. The ship was turned into the "USS Madison", which involved stenciling a new pennant number on to the funnel, as well as adding some "Americanism" to the superstructure. Steven McMenemy, the Argus's navigator said, "The ship sailed and we were joined by four small catamarans which were being used as markers for the cameras, so that warships could be added in with CGI later."[50] In October 2011, David Morse was cast as a "prisoner living in an abandoned jail."[9]
The filmmakers initially intended to film a climactic battle scene set in Russia, and the crew moved to Budapest to film it there.[51] Filming in Budapest commenced on the evening of October 10, 2011.[52] That morning, the Hungarian Counter Terrorism Centre raided the warehouse where guns had been delivered for use as filming props.[52] The 85 assault rifles, sniper rifles, and handguns had been flown into Budapest overnight on a private aircraft, but the film's producers had failed to clear the delivery with Hungarian authorities, and while the import documentation indicated that the weapons had been disabled, all were found to be fully functional.[52][53] On February 10, 2012, the charges were dropped after investigators were unable to identify exactly which "organization or person" had "ownership rights"; therefore they could not "establish which party was criminally liable".[54]
Post-production[edit]
In May 2012, production returned to Budapest for seven weeks of additional shooting.[55] The following month, screenwriter Damon Lindelof was hired to rewrite the film's third act with reshoots scheduled to begin in September or October 2012.[56] However Lindelof, who also reworked Prometheus and co-wrote Star Trek Into Darkness, did not have time to script the new ending and in July 2012, Paramount hired Lindelof's Lost partner, Drew Goddard.[57] Lindelof explained there were inefficiencies in the script in relation to the shooting, which started before the script was finalized thus making the ending "abrupt and incoherent" and was missing a large chunk of footage. Lindelof presented two options to executives, who ultimately chose to shoot 30 to 40 minutes of additional footage to make a coherent ending. The re-shoots coupled with other overages caused the budget to balloon to around $190 million, which shocked Paramount president Marc Evans.[2][3][58] Several of the scenes shot in Budapest, including a large-scale battle with the zombies in Moscow's Red Square,[59] were dropped from the final cut in order to water down the film's political undertones, and steer it towards a more generally friendly summer blockbuster.[60] The climactic battle scene in Russia, for which there was 12 minutes of footage, had Pitt's character fighting through zombies more like "a warrior hero" than "the sympathetic family man" of the earlier acts. The second-unit director, Simon Crane, said, "It wasn't character-driven anymore... [The filmmakers] really needed to think about what they wanted to do with the third act."[51]
In March 2013, it was reported that Paramount changed a scene in the film in which the characters speculate that the zombie outbreak originated in mainland China in hopes of landing a distribution deal in the country.[61] However, an executive familiar with upcoming releases in China later told The Wrap in June 2013 that a cut of the film was rejected by Chinese censors. A Paramount executive contended that he was "unaware of any rejection", explaining, "We have submitted one version and have yet to receive a response."[62]
Music[edit]
In December 2011, it was reported that Marco Beltrami had signed on to score World War Z.[63] In May 2013, the British rock band Muse posted a video on their YouTube channel, hinting that they would be contributing to the soundtrack of World War Z; the instrumental versions of the songs "Isolated System" and "Follow Me" were used.[64] In June, Warner Bros. Records released the soundtrack album for the film, which featured the original score composed by Beltrami.[65]
World War Z: Music from the Motion Picture
Soundtrack album by Marco Beltrami
Released June 18, 2013
Genre Classical
Length 44:09
Label Warner Bros. Records
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Movie Wave 3.5/5 stars
Filmtracks 3/5 stars
World War Z: Music from the Motion Picture
No. Title Length
1. "Philadelphia" 4:03
2. "The Lane Family" 2:47
3. "Ninja Quiet" 2:54
4. "Searching for Clues" 5:33
5. "NJ Mart" 4:01
6. "Zombies in Coach" 3:43
7. "Hand Off!" 2:49
8. "No Teeth No Bite" 3:25
9. "The Salvation Gates" 4:24
10. "Wales" 5:22
11. "Like a River Around a Rock" 5:08
Total length:
44:09
Release
World War Z was initially scheduled for release by Paramount and Skydance on December 21, 2012, but in March 2012 it was pushed back to June 21, 2013, with Paramount electing to release Jack Reacher on the December 2012 date.[48][66] The world premiere of World War Z was held at the Empire Cinema in Leicester Square, London on June 2, 2013.[67] British rock band Muse, who contributed toward the film's soundtrack, performed at the World War Z post-premiere concert at the Horse Guards Parade, to help promote the film.[68] On June 6, Pitt attended screenings of the film in Atlanta, Philadelphia, Chicago and Austin all in one day.[69] The film was chosen to open the 35th Moscow International Film Festival.[70] World War Z was released exclusively to Glasgow's Grosvenor Cinema in Ashton Lane on June 19, two days before it was launched worldwide.[71]
Reception[edit]
Box office[edit]
As of September 8, 2013, World War Z has earned $201,344,000 in North America, and $335,000,000 in other countries, for a worldwide total of $536,344,000.[4] Variety magazine called it a bona-fide box office hit.[72]
In North America, World War Z earned $25.20 million on its opening Friday,[73] including $3.6 million from Thursday night and midnight shows.[74] It went on to finish in second place behind Monsters University during its opening weekend with $66.41 million.[75] This was the second-largest opening weekend for a film that did not debut in first place,[76] the largest opening weekend for a film starring Brad Pitt[75] and the sixth-largest opening among films released in June.[77]
Outside North America, the film earned $5.7 million on its opening day (Thursday, June 20, 2013)[74] and $45.8 million on its opening weekend, ranking in third place.[75]
Critical reaction[edit]
As of September 9, 2013, World War Z has a 67% approval rating on the review aggregator website, Rotten Tomatoes, with an average rating of 6.2/10 based on an aggregation of 227 reviews. The site summary states "It's uneven and diverges from the source book, but World War Z still brings smart, fast-moving thrills and a solid performance from Brad Pitt to the zombie genre."[78] Metacritic, which uses a weighted mean, assigned a score of 63 out of 100, based on reviews from 46 film critics.[79]
Henry Barnes of The Guardian considered World War Z as an "attempt at large-scale seriousness" in the zombie genre, which resulted in a "punchy, if conventional action thriller."[80] Writing for Variety, Scott Foundas thought the film to be a "surprisingly smart, gripping and imaginative addition to the zombie-movie canon", which shows "few visible signs of the massive rewrites, reshoots and other post-production patchwork."[81] Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter opined that "Brad Pitt delivers a capable performance in an immersive apocalyptic spectacle about a global zombie uprising."[82] A. O. Scott of The New York Times said, "[It] does not try to extend the boundaries of commercial entertainment but does what it can to find interesting ways to pass the time within them."[83] Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times remarked, "World War Z plays a bit like a series of separate films and the juncture where the new final act was grafted onto the proceedings is unmistakable, but unless you knew about the film's troubled past, you'd never guess it existed."[84] AlchemistMagazine.net awarded the film 4 out of 5 stars, stating, "World War Z was an incredible experience. Not simply because of Zombies (we've seen plenty of those), but because of it's substance; the movie isn't interested in tossing barrels of blood and ligaments across the screen. It's actually trying to create a layered story. One of emotion, and discovery. It wants to present you with a startling realistic interpretation of the infection fantasy."[85]
Conversely, Joe Neumaier of The New York Daily News said that World War Z "is no summer thriller. It’s an anemic actioner that fosters excitement like dead limbs as it lumbers toward a conclusion."[86] Similarly, Robbie Collin of The Daily Telegraph thought that the film had been affected by its troubled development, observing that "the final product has an elaborate uselessness about it," in a film that has "no heart to be found amid the guts."[87] Alonso Duralde of The Wrap said, "For all its effectiveness at portraying the horror of possible human extinction, the film's actual humans are so soulless that this could just as well be the movie version of the video game Plants vs. Zombies."[88]
Home media[edit]
This film was released on Blu-ray Disc and DVD on September 17, 2013.The Blu-ray disc contains an unrated cut[89]
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