As we haven’t been hearing too much about WORLD WAR Z, the epic adaptation of Max Brooks’ novel of the same name that Brad Pitt is producing (and maybe set to star in), I had already figured it was kaput. Turns out it’s still got a little life in it, but that life is escaping with the quickness, and if someone doesn’t come along and feed it a little dough, it’s gone.
An article over at New York Magazine’s Vulture Blog tells us that Paramount is searching for a partner on WORLD WAR Z due to the project’s reported $125 million price tag. The film, which has Marc Forster (QUANTUM OF SOLACE) attached to direct, will apparently get its plug pulled if another studio isn’t willing to help defray some of the cost.
“We’re really committed to making a big, kick-ass giant movie with Marc Forster and Brad Pitt,” says Paramount Film Group president Adam Goodman, who is currently in the process of wooing investors such as David Ellison, whose company picked up some of the tab on TRUE GRIT.
According to the mag, Forster has promised Paramount a PG-13 rating, so this isn’t an AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS scenario, where the studio is afraid of the budget and the rating. Frankly, I’m not concerned with the rating (although hard to imagine a tough, serious zombie movie that isn’t an R), I’m just hoping this interesting take on the old zombie apocalypse tale doesn’t go away for good…
Brad Pitt’s lady…
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