

Turning to re-enter the aircraft, Fassbach slips, falls and accidentally shoots himself dead. Gerry and Fassbach fly to Camp Humphreys, a military base in South Korea, where they are attacked on arrival by zombies. Gerry agrees to help Fassbach find the outbreak's source after it is made clear that the Lanes will be removed from the cramped ship if he is not of use. Andrew Fassbach posits that the plague is a virus and that development of a vaccine depends on finding the origin. Navy vessel in the Atlantic where scientists and military personnel are analyzing the worldwide outbreaks. UN Deputy Secretary-General Thierry Umutoni, an old friend of Gerry, sends a helicopter that extracts the Lanes and Tommy to a U.S. As chaos spreads, the Lanes escape to Newark, New Jersey and take refuge in an apartment, home to a couple with a young son, Tommy. A sequel was announced shortly after the film's release, but in February 2019 it was cancelled, reportedly, due to budget issues.įormer UN employee Gerry Lane, his wife Karin and their two daughters are in heavy Philadelphia traffic when the city is overrun by zombies that are attracted to sound. Regardless, the film was a commercial success, grossing over $540 million against a production budget of $190 million, becoming the highest-grossing zombie film of all time. The film received positive reviews for Brad Pitt's performance and as a realistic revival of the zombie genre, but received certain criticism for the anti-climax and outdated CGI. The film premiered in New York, and Los Angeles on June 14, 2013, and released everywhere on June 21, 2013, in the United States, in 2D and RealD 3D. World War Z premiered in London on June 3, 2013, and was chosen to open the 35th Moscow International Film Festival. The reshoots took place between September and October 2012. Damon Lindelof was hired to rewrite the third act, but did not have time to finish the script, and Drew Goddard was hired to rewrite it. In June 2012, the film's release date was pushed back, and the crew returned to Budapest for seven weeks of additional shooting. Originally set for a December 2012 release, the production suffered some setbacks. 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. In 2009, Carnahan was hired to rewrite the script.

Pitt's Plan B Entertainment secured the film rights in 2007, and Forster was approached to direct. 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 pandemic. Michael Straczynski, based on the 2006 novel of the same name by Max Brooks. The screenplay by Matthew Michael Carnahan, Drew Goddard, and Damon Lindelof is from a screen story by Carnahan and J.

World War Z is a 2013 American apocalyptic action horror film directed by Marc Forster.
