A colleague says Richardson is highly gifted but doesnât respond well to weakness at the top. a scene in his last picture Machine Gun Preacher where a small child gets killed by a land mine and Forster felt the need to play up this moment with a soaring bit of score).It turns out that Forster also didn't have a clear direction when approaching World War Z, and the rudderless ship began to sink. To be fair, Forster "was not allowed to bring on his usual team", because the production felt he needed more seasoned supporting players like line producer Colin Wilson ( Avatar) and Oscar-winning effects man John Nelson ( Gladiator), and Oscar-winning cinematographer Robert Richardson ( Hugo), all of whom were eventually replaced. Furthermore, Pitt was absent during pre-production since he was busy filming Killing Them Softlyand then wanted to spend time with family. And in October, "a Hungarian anti-terrorism unit raided an airport warehouse and confiscated 85 fully functional automatic assault rifles that were to be used on the shoot."But Forster has to shoulder the blame for a number of the film's other problems. The director reportedly hadn't even decided how the zombies were supposed to look and move even though the start of production was only three weeks away. The plan to support Forster's "vision" with strong below-the-line talent fell apart when no vision materialized, and a power vacuum opened up as various players attempted to find a direction for the movie. For example, Richardson "struggled to impose order, antagonizing other crew members in the process. According to The Hollywood Reporter, producer and star Brad Pitt made the critical error of selecting Marc Forster ( Quantum of Solace) as the movie's director. Quantum was Forster's only other big budget feature, and he's never shown much vision or personality in his films. If anything, he's an unimaginative journeyman who can be far too heavy-handed (e.g.
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Paramount almost didn't make a PG-13 blockbuster adaptation of Max Brooks' zombie novel World War Z, and that would have probably been for the best. The project, which was envisioned as the first part of a potential trilogy, would have been dead if the movie didn't get a co-financier, but the studio eventually found partners in producer Graham King's GK Films and David Ellison's Skydance Productions. Now they're all paying the price as the production has spun wildly out of control, soared to more than a $170 million budget, requires five weeks of complex reshoots (others have put the number at 7-8 weeks), and brought in Lost co-creator Damon Lindelof to do re-writes on a picture that won't be able to get back in front of cameras until September.So how did production on World War Z go so horribly wrong? Hit the jump for more.
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