{"id":20522,"date":"2012-06-04T06:13:27","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T11:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=20522"},"modified":"2012-06-08T16:23:53","modified_gmt":"2012-06-08T21:23:53","slug":"world-war-z-getting-extensive-7-weeks-of-reshoots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2012\/06\/04\/world-war-z-getting-extensive-7-weeks-of-reshoots\/","title":{"rendered":"WORLD WAR Z Getting Extensive 7 Weeks Of Reshoots"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>These days it is not unusual for a film’s cast to be reassembled for additional shooting months after the production had originally wrapped. It is often a good way for a director to add some shots he has discovered while editing that he still needs. However, a reshoot period for a film as long as this is virtually unheard of.<\/p>\n

The Daily Mail<\/em><\/a> is reporting that director Marc Forster’s adaption of Max Brooks’s zombie novel World War Z<\/em> has just scheduled seven weeks of worth of reshoots in Budapest<\/span>.<\/p>\n

To give you an example of how unusual this amount of time is, some smaller films are shot entirely in seven weeks. But the last time that there was a series of reshoots this extensive was for the Exorcist<\/strong> prequel nearly a decade ago and you may remember how that whole fiasco turned out.<\/p>\n

I have to admit that although I enjoyed the book, at this point I don’t have high hopes for the film. The book was considered a tricky adaption due to the its story being told through a collection of government documents and eyewitness accounts of a zombie uprising. J Michael Straczynski managed to structure a screenplay that received a lot of good buzz as well as praise from Brooks himself. However, after director Marc Forster signed on to the project, a new writer in the form of Matthew Michael Carnahan reportedly gave the film a more straightforward narrative structure. It was a move that Brooks appeared to be<\/a> unhappy about.<\/p>\n

As a director, Forster has never shown much facility for onscreen action. I found the action sequences of both Quantum Of Solace<\/strong> and Machine Gun Preacher<\/strong> to be muddled and at times downright confusing. And there is no doubt that this film will need a strong action director at its helm.<\/p>\n

This latest news does not do much to instill confidence, but perhaps the reshoots are to move the film back to its original structure. Could we be that lucky?<\/p>\n

World War Z<\/strong> hits theaters in June 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This does not necessarily bode well for the project.<\/div>\n

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