Even through all of the production issues, I really liked 2/3 of Brad Pitt’s World War Z. And had Damon Lidelof not fucked with the ending, we may have seen Pitt decapitating zombies with some new kid of military weapon instead of Pitt waltzing around hospital.
Whatever the case, World War Z was a huge, huge success – in fact, it’s Pitt’s biggest money making feature ever ($540M worldwide). And being a producer on it, shit, he’s a rich mofo.
They’ve been hard at work on a sequel ever since the first hit theaters in 2013. Now, Paramount is readying it with an eye to release on June 9, 2017 where it will go head-to-head with Fox’s Fantastic Four sequel. But Paramount shouldn’t worry – there’s no way that FF sequel gets off the ground that quickly. Mark my words.
Back in January Steven Knight, the sequel’s screenwriter, told Indiewire: “It’s not quite like the other; we’re starting with clean slate.”
As of that writing, shooting was said to start on World War Z 2 as early as this coming October with J.A. Bayona set to direct.
