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News movies & tv series 07 February 2019, 22:18

World War Z 2 Canceled

After years of remaining in development hell, the sequel to the 2013 zombie movie World War Z 2 was canceled.

We have bad news for the fans of World War Z, the 2013 zombie movie directed by Marc Forster and starring Brad Pitt. Shooting for the sequel was supposed to start this summer, but according to information obtained by The Playlist, this will not happen and the project was halted.

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The first part of World War Z could have used a better plot, but its depiction of the living dead was certainly memorable.

The no official reasons for the decision ae know. Budgetary issues were probably the main reason. Although the film was supposed to be a more modest project than its predecessor (costing $190 million, not counting the expensive re-shooting), a reliable presentation of the zombie apocalypse is not be something that can be done cheap. Paramount Pictures recently secured a lot of funds for much more reliable investments such as two new parts of the Mission: Impossible and the decision to abandon World War Z 2 could simply be a result of this move – same as, for example, the new would-be Star Trek film, which was cancelled a month ago.

The script for the continuation of World War Z was written by Steven Knight, creator of the Peaky Blinders and Taboo series, among others. Initially, the director of the film was to be J.A. Bayon, but he left in 2016 and some time later David Fincher was chosen to take his place (who has worked on e.g. Seven, Fight Club, Mindhunter). Brad Pitt was to reprise the lead role. The project was struggling from the very beginning and it seemed that it would finally move forward in earnest only last year, when the starting date of the shooting was announced. However, the hopes of the fans turned out to be premature.

Michael Grygorcewicz

Michael Grygorcewicz

He first worked as a co-worker at GRYOnline.pl. In 2023 he became the head of the Paid Products department. He has been creating articles about games for over twenty years. He started with amateur websites, which he coded himself in HTML, then he moved on to increasingly larger portals. A computer engineer, but he was always more drawn to writing than programming, and he decided to tie his future with the former. In games, he primarily looks for stories, emotions, and immersion that no other medium can provide - hence, among his favorite titles, are games focusing on narration. Believes that NieR: Automata is the best game ever made.

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