The hotly anticipated "World War Z" is only a few months away and director Mark Forster recently spoke to Empire Online to detail the process of reshooting the film.
Numerous reports claimed that the extra production schedule had taken seven weeks, but Forster made sure to clarify this information. "No, seven weeks is not correct. We shot for about four-and-a-half. Reshooting was always normal," he said.
Forster noted that the reshoots took place because the production team realized that the film's ending was not working with the overall experience. "Our reshoots were a little more exposed in the press because we had a different ending. We felt a different ending would serve the movie better," he elaborated. "It's the same if you're buying a house and you roll out a nice Persian carpet for your living room and you realize it doesn't really fit."
The film is filled with a plethora of zombies and will undoubtedly be a major selling point. "What is interesting is the way the zombies move. I was looking at nature and how ants move. They're having this feeding frenzy, and when they're going after the last resources they build this tower of babel, this building of disease," said Forster. "In a sense, [the zombies] are moving fast in a feeding frenzy and need stimulation, otherwise they're roaming and slow. When a shark smells blood he attacks; otherwise he's just roaming around."
"World War Z" tells the story of Jerry Lane (Brad Pitt), a United Nations employee, who traverses the world to stop a zombie apocalypse. The film stars Eric West, Mireille Enos, Matthew Fox, James Badge Dale, David Morse, Julian Seager and many more. It is slated for wide release on June 21, 2013.
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