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David Fincher Wants There to Be a Reason for a ‘World War Z’ Sequel
The great David Fincher has been attached to direct a follow-up to Paramount’s World War Z for over a year now. While it’s been pretty quiet around that front, it’s always been pegged to begin filming as early as January of 2018, which is still a few month away. With his ridiculously good Netflix series “MINDHUNTER” now streaming, he’s focusing on several projects, one of which is hopefully World War Z 2. It’s a huge win for us genre fans to have Fincher attached, especially because he isn’t doing it “just because”. Here’s what he had to say about their attitude towards the hotly anticipated zombie sequel.
“I worked on a show for HBO that didn’t see the light of day and at the same time was doing [Mindhunter], and then did [Mindhunter], and I’ve been working for about a year now with Dennis Kelly on World War Z,” he told Collider.
“We’re hoping to get a piece of material that’s a reason to make a movie not an excuse to make a movie.”
As previously reported, Brad Pitt will once again star as former U.N. investigator Gerry Lane, who heads on a worldwide search to find the source of the infection and, with luck, a way to halt its spread.
World War Z would reteam Fincher with Pitt, who collaborated on Se7en and Fight Club. The music video director broke into filmmaking with the 1993 Alien3, and went on to direct Panic Room, Zodiac, The Social Network and Gone Girl.
Sony returns to their own Marvel universe with the upcoming Kraven the Hunter, which has been bumped all over the release schedule. This week, it’s been bumped once more.
There was a time when Sony was going to unleash Kraven in theaters in October 2023, but the film was then bumped to August 2024. It’ll now release on December 13, 2024.
Kraven the Hunter will be the very first Marvel movie from Sony to be released into theaters with an “R” rating, with lots of bloody violence being promised.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson stars as the title character, Marvel’s ultimate predator.
“Kraven the Hunter is the visceral story about how and why one of Marvel’s most iconic villains came to be. Set before his notorious vendetta with Spider-Man, Aaron Taylor-Johnson stars as the titular character in the R-rated film.”
Ariana DeBose will play Calypso in the upcoming Kraven the Hunter movie.
Christopher Abbott (Possessor) is playing The Foreigner, with Levi Miller (Better Watch Out) also on board. Alessandro Nivola (The Many Saints of Newark) will play another villain, but character details are under wraps. Russell Crowe and Fred Hechinger also star.
J.C. Chandor (A Most Violent Year) is directing Kraven the Hunter.
The screenplay was written by Art Marcum & Matt Holloway and Richard Wenk.
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