'World War Z' will hit the screens on June 21 in the US and UK. "In these movies you're triggering emotions, too - a thrill response - but they are far more calibrated. We give so much more credence to the end-of-the-year dramas. So Pitt and his never-ending platoon of screenwriters confronted a familiar Hollywood dilemma: How can we take an original. The synoptic structure of World War Z is more like the star’s Babel times about a billion. "These movies are very intricate puzzles, and you have to keep winding the mechanisms and then trigger them all at just the right time. (READ: Brad Pitt as the crafty General Manager of Moneyball) Moneyball, at least, had a central, Pitt-friendly character to play. It gutted the fun of what these films are meant to be," he said.ĭespite the decision to edit out some of the more political scenes in the film, Pitt maintained that it is more than just a fantasy summer blockbuster. We got bogged down in it it was too much to explain. "We wanted to really explore that, but it was just too much. "At the time, I was really interested in a more political film, using the zombie trope as a kind of Trojan horse for asking, 'What would happen to socio political lines if there was a pandemic like this? Who would be on top? Who would be the powerful countries and who would be the most vulnerable?'
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