World War Z
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | World War Z |
| Original title | World War Z |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English , Spanish , Arabic , Hebrew |
| Publishing year | 2013 |
| length | Theatrical Version: 116 minutes Extended Action Cut: 123 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 16 JMK 14 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Marc Forster |
| script |
Matthew Carnahan , Damon Lindelof , Drew Goddard |
| production |
Brad Pitt , Dede Gardner , Jeremy Kleiner , Ian Bryce |
| music | Marco Beltrami |
| camera | Ben Seresin |
| cut |
Roger Barton , Matt Chessé |
| occupation | |
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World War Z is an American action film by the German - Swiss director Marc Forster from 2013 . The film, starring Brad Pitt and Mireille Enos in the lead roles was developed by Plan B Entertainment produces and based on the book Operation Zombie: Who lives longer, is later found dead (2006) by Max Brooks . It premiered on June 2, 2013 in London . It started in Germany on June 27, 2013.
action
The former UN -Staff Gerry Lane with his wife and two daughters traveling in Pennsylvania Philadelphia , as there is a zombie - pandemic breaks out. Lane observes how a person infected by a bite turns into a maddening monster within ten seconds. The combat experience that he has acquired on UN missions in crisis areas helps him to temporarily get to safety with his family in a high-rise building. The UN Vice Secretary-General and former Head of Lanes at the UN, Thierry Umutoni, contacted him and made sure that he and his family were rescued at the last minute by helicopter from the roof of the skyscraper. They are flown to the UN headquarters, which is currently on a US Navy warship .
This shows how hopeless the situation is: Large parts of the world have been overrun by zombies, most of the big cities have already been lost. Lane is supposed to accompany the virologist Fassbach and find the origin of the epidemic so that a vaccine can be developed. Lane refuses to leave his family. But then he and his family would be brought back ashore, since the ship is reserved for officials in the fight against the epidemic. Lane agrees and flies off with the scientist and a group of soldiers. Fassbach explains to him that the cause of the zombie attacks is obviously an infection. However, every infection has a weak point that must be found in order to be able to fight the disease.
The first destination is the US military base Camp Humphreys in South Korea , from which an email was sent a few days before the global outbreak of the epidemic mentioning zombies. Fassbach accidentally shoots himself there. Lane can't find the cause of the plague, but learns that noises attract the zombies and that there are only a few seconds between being bitten by a zombie and turning the bitten into a zombie. He also receives information from a CIA agent that Israel had built a high wall around Jerusalem to protect the city before the outbreak of the epidemic . The Mossad apparently knew what was going to happen. Lane decides to fly there. The take-off is only marginally successful, because first the aircraft has to be refueled under adverse circumstances and attacking zombies almost prevent take-off.
The Israelis can't help Lane: They just intercepted a radio message that spoke of zombies in India , took it seriously, unlike other secret services, and acted accordingly. Nothing is known about the origin of the infection. Meanwhile, Jerusalem is also being stormed. People allowed into the city celebrate their rescue with loud singing that attracts crowds of zombies who can eventually overcome the wall. Lane escapes with an Israeli soldier who only calls herself "Blessing" ( Hebrew for first lieutenant ). After a zombie bite, he saves her life by chopping off her bitten hand. You are leaving Israel in a fully occupied Belarusian airliner .
Lane has observed that the zombies ignore seriously ill people: Since only healthy hosts are possible for the infection, he suspects that the sick are invisible to the zombies. Lane believes she has found the pathogen's weak point. He has the plane diverted to the Welsh capital, Cardiff , where the nearest operational WHO medical research facility is located. On the way there, the epidemic breaks out on board after a zombie manages to access the kitchen in the passenger area from the hold. Lane throws a hand grenade in the last resort and the machine crashes.
Lane and Blessings survive. At the UN headquarters on the warship, it is assumed that Lane and his companions have died or infected, as contact has long been broken. Lane's family no longer has a right of residence on the ship and is taken to a refugee camp in the Canadian maritime province of Nova Scotia .
Lane contacts headquarters via satellite phone and learns where his family is. Now it is even more urgent for him to check his theory. Many of the researchers stationed there survived in the research facility, but only four lanes can help. There are sufficient samples of various pathogens that cause partly curable, partly incurable diseases. These samples are, however, in a building area overrun by zombies. With the help of the soldier Segen and the director of the research facility, Lane manages to reach the facility's high-security laboratory and infect himself with a deadly disease that he does not know what it is. On his way back, the zombies leave him completely undisturbed. Apparently they don't even notice him, which confirms his hypothesis. Back in safety, he is injected with the antidote to the infection.
News of its discovery spreads quickly. A special virus is being developed and distributed worldwide as a vaccine that makes people "invisible" to zombies. This is how mankind succeeds in defending itself against the zombies. Lane is flown to his family in Nova Scotia. The film ends with Lane saying that there is hope but the war has only just begun.
background
The film is based on the novel Operation Zombie: Who Lives Longer Is Later Dead (German title) by Max Brooks, in which a UN employee conducts interviews with survivors of a worldwide zombie war. Brooks says he was hardly involved in the making of the film and sees little connection to his novel: "They didn't ruin my book, they ignored it."
During the shooting, the script was changed several times and scenes and storylines were completely re-shot. The story, which originally came from J. Michael Straczynski and is probably much closer to the book, was fundamentally rewritten by Matthew Michael Carnahan , who also brought in the main character of Gerry Lane , who was then taken over by Pitt himself. Damon Lindelof and Drew Goddard developed the ending used in the theatrical version of the film shown. The original final in Moscow , which had already been filmed , was completely discarded after test demonstrations. Only a few short excerpts were used. Initially, the origin of the zombie epidemic should lie in China, equivalent to the novel. However, since there was fear of a performance ban in China, this reference was subsequently changed.
The budget for the film was about $ 200 million. Der Spiegel assumed that - taking into account the costs of marketing and the 3-D technology used - a total budget of around 400 million US dollars could be assumed, without naming specific sources.
Ed Harris and Bryan Cranston were offered roles in the film, but they had to decline due to overlap with other filming.
Filming began in Malta in July 2011 before resuming in Scotland in August of the same year . From October 2011 further filming followed in Hungary . The film was produced by Brad Pitt's production company Plan B Entertainment . The original premier date was December 21, 2012, but Paramount Pictures decided to premier Jack Reacher on that date instead . June 21, 2013 was set as the new worldwide theatrical release. In 2013, 1,376,392 visitors were counted at the German box office nationwide, making the film the 21st place among the most visited films of the year.
Robert Richardson was initially employed as cameraman . When filming dragged on, Newton took over Thomas Sigel , as Richardson had to leave the production because of his engagement for Django Unchained . After all, Ben Seresin was the third cameraman on the re- shoots for the new ending at the end of 2012 and was then the only one mentioned in the opening credits.
continuation
Due to its commercial success, Paramount was planning a sequel to the film that should hit theaters in June 2017. The first draft of the script was written by Steven Knight , with Dennis Kelly hired to revise it . JA Bayona was hired as a director, but he left the project in January 2016. At the beginning of 2017, production was postponed indefinitely. In June 2017, Paramount CEO Jim Gianopulos announced that a sequel was still in development and had signed David Fincher as director and Brad Pitt was involved in production.
On February 6, 2019 it was announced that no more sequels would be produced. Paramount did not give any specific reasons for discontinuing production.
Film music
The film used the instrumental versions of "Isolated System" and "Follow Me" from The 2nd Law by Muse . The soundtrack for the film, composed by Marco Beltrami , was released in June 2013 :
- Philadelphia
- The Lane Family
- Ninja Quiet
- Searching for clues
- NJ Mart
- Zombies In Coach
- Hand off!
- No teeth, no bite
- The Salvation Gates
- Wales
- Like A River Around A Rock
Extended Action Cut
The so-called Extended Action Cut was released on Blu-Ray, which is seven minutes longer than the theatrical version and contains some new scenes and more blood.
reception
Reviews
The film received mostly positive reviews from critics in the United States . Of over 250 evaluated reviews in the Rotten Tomatoes review collection , the film received 68% positive ratings. The German criticism was divided:
“Forster succeeds in staging the spectacular with emphatic understatement. None of the elaborate CGI effects stands alone as a mere attraction, but always remains committed to the narrative economy. The film uses 3D technology in a similarly efficient manner. There are no zombies running into the auditorium to pretend the film's space. Rather, the audience is subtly involved in what is happening on the screen. One scene in downtown Philadelphia in particular focuses entirely on conveying the feeling of disorientation that one experiences when one is in the midst of an angry crowd. The staggered extras, one behind the other, suggest a spatial impression, while the quick cuts and close-up shots create a form of confusion that in many films seems like convenience, but makes sense here. "
“It is a shame that Forster did not use this furious introduction to a zombie verse, particularly inspired by George A. Romero's masterpieces 'Dawn of the Dead' and 'Day of the Dead', as a springboard for an epic-existentialist apocalypse. The system would have been there, for example in the claustrophobic scenes in which Brad Pitt, the family dad with Kurt Cobain hairstyle, and his kin freed himself from a residential building. Instead, they decided on what is actually a rather bland world saver story. "
"Narrative flaws reduce the enjoyment of the global scavenger hunt just as much as the family-friendly defusing of the subject, but the adrenaline-soaked zombie action thriller 'World War Z' simply offers great viewing values and thus good summer blockbuster entertainment."
“I can't think of a zombie film that tastes so bland, even sterile, like this one. Guts and gore, wherever they are allowed to push out of wounded bodies into the open (as is typical of the genre), are consistently erased from the images or banned off-screen. This renunciation of violence is not aimed at activating fantasy activity, but on the contrary, at its total containment and control: a film as if under quarantine, which immunizes itself as best it can against the suffering it allegedly conjures up. "
Max Brooks, author of the novel, said in an interview that the film was an “interesting, exciting summer blockbuster” that “just happened to have the same title as the book”.
Gross profit
Contrary to the studio's fears, the film proved to be commercially successful. World War Z grossed around $ 540 million worldwide, with $ 202 million in the United States alone.
Awards
At Hollywood Film Festival 2013, Marc Forster for a Hollywood Movie Award nomination. The film received a 2013 Teen Choice Awards nomination in the Choice Summer Movie: Action / Adventure category .
At the People's Choice Awards , the film received a nomination in the Favorite Action Movie category .
Web links
- World War Z in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Criticism from Deutschlandradio on dradio.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ release document for World War Z . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , June 2013 (PDF; test number: 139 266 K).
- ↑ age classification for World War Z . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ World War Z in the IMDb . Retrieved June 4, 2013
- ↑ Max Brooks in an "Ask me anything" on Reddit .com on March 25, 2014
- ↑ a b Andreas Borcholte: Debacle shoot "World War Z": bankruptcies, bad luck and zombies. Spiegel Online , June 26, 2013.
- ↑ If the form comes before the content , report to ORF.at, June 25, 2013.
- ↑ Julie Miller Exclusive: The Making of Brad Pitt's World War Z, from Stunning Budget Overages and a Reshot Ending to Lots of On-Set Drama. Vanity Fair , April 30, 2013.
- ↑ Internet Movie Database : Background information , accessed November 17, 2013
- ↑ Pamela McClintock: Paramount Release Shakeup: Tom Cruise's 'One Shot' to Christmas; Brad Pitt's 'World War Z' to Summer , The Hollywood Reporter , March 13, 2012.
- ↑ KINOaktuell: What you wanted: Münster's cinema year 2013, C. Lou Lloyd, Filminfo No. 4, January 23-29, 2014, p. 24f
- ↑ Tobias Mayer: “World War Z” sequel loses director - who could now shoot “Jurassic World 2”. Report at filmstarts.de from January 12, 2016.
- ↑ Pamela McClintock: Paramount's Jim Gianopulos on Starting Over, His Fox Exit and Reviving a Struggling Studio. In: hollywoodreporter.com. June 21, 2017, accessed October 15, 2017 .
- ↑ Rodrigo Perez: Paramount Pulls The Plug On David Fincher's 'World War Z' Sequel [Exclusive ] . February 6, 2019. Retrieved February 7, 2019.
- ↑ World War Z at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- ↑ Michael Kienzl: World War Z. critic.de - the film page, June 14, 2013, accessed on June 17, 2013 .
- ↑ Thomas Groh: Save the world again. taz, the daily newspaper, June 26, 2013, accessed on June 26, 2013 .
- ↑ Carsten Baumgardt: Die Filmstarts criticism of World War Z. Filmstarts, accessed on July 3, 2013 .
- ^ Nikolaus Perneczky: Treason of the zombie film. Pearl Divers , June 27, 2013, accessed June 27, 2013 .
- ↑ World War Z author shares inspiration of zombie world , collegiatetimes.com. Retrieved November 17, 2013.
- ^ World War Z , Box Office Mojo , accessed November 9, 2013.
- ↑ a b c Internet Movie Database : Nominations and Awards , accessed November 17, 2013