Zombie Pun Alert: Brad Pitt's World War Z Gets Another Life at Paramount?
Last week, it was reported that Paramount would consider re-killing the zombie apocalypse film World War Z because of its $125 million budget if the studio couldn't find a co-financier. Well, it looks like they may have found one. Deadline reports that David Ellison's Skydance and possibly two other money people are in negotiations with Paramount to keep the Brad Pitt film afloat. Those Movieline-approved 15-to-1 odds of Z happening look a whole lot better at the moment. [Deadline]
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Nice! This was such a fantastic book,, so glad it’s still making its way to film, slowly but surely. Odd that a film Brad Pitt’s put so much support in would meet this kind of resistance at first, but it looks like things are moving along. I didn’t even know he was involved in this, but I watched Fight Club off the Netflix app on my Logitech Revue (I’m a DISH customer/employee)and searched Brad out after that to see what he was involved in, and found this.