Late last month we let you know of the possible June start date for Marc Forster’s WORLD WAR Z, with Brad Pitt still attached to play the male lead. Now, according to Bleeding Cool, all-world cinematographer Robert Richardson has not only joined the film, but has started preliminary work on the film at London’s Elstree Studios.
In case you’re unfamiliar with the man’s resume, Richardson has worked with some of the directorial greats, in particular Oliver Stone, Martin Scorsese and Quentin Tarantino. He shot PLATOON, JFK, NATURAL BORN KILLERS, CASINO, BRINGING OUT THE DEAD, KILL BILL, THE AVIATOR, INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS, SHUTTER ISLAND and most recently HUGO CABRET (just to list a few). Marc Forster, who continually impresses, definitely found a dude he can trust to bring post-apocalyptic landscapes to life. Are you as stoked as I by the hire?
WORLD WAR Z: AN ORAL HISTORY OF THE ZOMBIE WAR is a 2006 post-apocalyptic horror novel by Max Brooks. It is a follow-up to his 2003 book The Zombie Survival Guide. Rather than a grand overview or narrative, World War Z is a collection of individual accounts in the form of first-person anecdote. Brooks plays the role of an agent of the United Nations Postwar Commission who published the report a decade after the Zombie War. The United Nations left out much of his work from the official report, choosing to focus on facts and figures from the war rather than the individual stories that form the bulk of Brooks’ novel. The interviews chart a decade-long war against zombies from the view point of many different people of various nationalities. The personal accounts also describe the changing religious, geo-political, and environmental aftermath of the Zombie War.
What’s a mention of Brad Pitt without a shot of his leading lady?!?
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