If you have a Vanity Fair magazine subscription you’ll have just received the June issue, featuring Mr Brad Pitt in the front cover. This month’s issue takes a look at the making of Brad’s latest movie, World War Z.
Although Brad is a huge champion of the film, the production did not go quite to plan. Screenwriter Damon Lindelof tells the magazine: “He took me through how excited he was when he read the book, what was exciting for him, the geopolitical aspect of it.”
Damon said Brad explained: “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.”
Lindelof says that the original ending was abrupt and seemed to have a large chunk of footage missing.
"I said to them, There are two roads to go down here," says Lindelof. "Is there material that can be written to make that stuff work better? To have it make sense? To have it have emotional stakes? And plot logic and all that? And Road Two, which I think is the long-shot road, is that everything changes after Brad leaves Israel. I didn't think anyone was going to say, 'Let's throw it out and try something else.’ So when I gave them those two roads and they sounded more interested in Road B" (which meant shooting an additional 30 to 40 minutes of the movie) "I was like, 'To be honest with you, good luck selling that to Paramount.'?"
$200million later, they’re finally happy with the finished product. Read the entire report in the June issue before you subscribe and save on Vanity Fair subscription today.
Posted by Amy Power.
