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Meet WORLD WAR Z(ombies?) From Glasgowdelphia!!
Merrick here...
Gordon, an AICN reader, sent in the following message and photographs after glimpsing the Glasgow shoot of Marc Forster's WORLD WAR Z adaptation.
Wednesday we got a look at Glasgow made over as Philadelphia - there's more of that here, along with a nice look (our first look?) at some zombie/gnarly/dead(ish)/decidedly unhealthy folk.
Here's the note from Gordon, followed by his pictures. We truly appreciate both!
I've been taking lots of photos in Glasgow today of the World War Z ' Philadelphia ' set. There was a truck with either 'dead people' or 'zombie' dummies in the back of it, which i have attached to this email + some other photos. The ' zombies' look strangely like Mick Jagger and Keith Richards!
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Aug. 19, 2011, 7:38 p.m. CST
Maybe it's the early stage zombies. Hope they don't have this look.
by CodeName
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WTF needs to be a hard R
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If they're trying to make it look like Philly, why are they using MTA buses and not Septa buses?
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Aug. 19, 2011, 7:41 p.m. CST
If they're trying to make it look like Philly, why are they using MTA buses and not Septa buses?
by Nick
If they're trying to make it look like Philly, why are they using MTA buses and not Septa buses?
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You can't do it. They're rotting corpses.
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Looks like they've got a Paul McCartney dummy too. I don't remember anything in the book about old English rock stars attacking Philadelphia.
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Shows the filmmakers and/or studio don't give two shits about the book. Friend 1: Hey, they're making World War Z into a movie! Brad Pitt's going to be in it. Friend 2: Yeah, it's going to be PG13. Friend 1: What the FUCK???!
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That looks eerily like Philly...except for the fact that the one bus isn't Septa...and in the last pic there is a hill...whereas Broad St. is all flat. Oh and none of the extras have any Phillies or Eagles attire. But other than that...pretty spot on!
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Here. This news should excite you. http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=81224
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Easy as that.
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FUCK i am already getting hard.!!
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As a native that looks nothing like Arch st and the Public transportation is all wrong.
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Aug. 19, 2011, 8:54 p.m. CST
The four hanging on the rack = John, Paul, George, and Ringo
by tylerzero
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Aug. 19, 2011, 9:27 p.m. CST
What would John Lennon be doing right now if he were alive?
by MARCEL_THE_NEGRO_PROJECTIONIST
Clawing at the lid of his coffin. Ba Damp Bump!!
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World War Z is a shitfest in the making: a PG-13 zombie apocalypse film that is completely and totally unfaithful to the source material it comes from. Fuck that. And filming in Glasgow for Philly (which, I can't fucking remember anything at all happening in Philadelphia in the book as the big battle took place in Yonkers and other places) is got to be one of the biggest slaps in the face to that city that's ever been. Fuck Brad Pitt for doing this and fuck Max Brooks for taking the money and running. An adaptation of WWZ that ditches the first person accounts and goes with an atypical third person perspective like everything else is not only trite, its just fucking boring. And a boring zombie film IS DEFINITELY NOT what we want. Zombie films are passe. They've run their course. They've become cliche. And this is another cliche in the making. The novel took a cliche and turned it into pop art that was chilling and utterly relevant. But the film, fuck that. This film could have been a landmark in horror cinema. Instead, its shaping up to be an absolute shit sandwich. Hell, at this point with The Walking Dead's budget being cut, anything with a zombie in it is absolutely toxic for being a potential groundbreaking piece of genre filmmaking. It's over. This genre needs to get the fuck out. We're sick of it. If Hollywood can't do it right, fuck'em.
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Aug. 19, 2011, 9:32 p.m. CST
And buckwheat is fucking a cunt who'd pay $30.00 to see this shitfest in IMAX 3D.
by elgato73
Buckwheat is the kind of moviegoer that Hollywood loves. And that's why this genre and others continue to sink into the shitter--cunts like buckwheat will pay to see PG-13 zombie gore that's utterly boring and utterly sanitized for your viewing pleasure. Yeah, fuck that.
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I never got all the way through the book. And I'm a kid that grew up on Romero zombie films, as well as lesser cult items like "Night of the Comet." A guy I worked with recommended the book to me, saying it was the end-all-be-all of all things zombie... I just couldn't jive to the loose narrative structure. There were only so many pages of random military people recounting random acts of zombie violence before I eventually put it down, never to return. Its still sitting on my bathroom shelf. I should probably give it another go, sometime.
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as a zombie?
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Aug. 19, 2011, 11:05 p.m. CST
ha, that 2nd photo looks like a glossy for an English post punk band
by Tigger Tales
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Does anyone at AICN know at all if the JMS script has been kept and what %.... Even AICN had a glowing "could win an oscar" review of the screenplay. This seems like they may have dummied down that script and further synopse from Paramount is not looking good -- ‘The story revolves around United Nations employee Gerry Lane (Brad Pitt), who traverses the world in a race against time to stop the Zombie pandemic that is toppling armies and governments and threatening to decimate humanity itself.’ So who knows???? AICN'ers??? This is a big change to make it current...
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It's still early, but the more I see, the more I hate. The book was one of the best original reads of the decade. This movie will be atypical hollywood garbage. PG-13 zombies? The book was loaded with (at least) r-rated scenes of gore and violence beyond belief presented in a intelligent, social-psychologically driven manner. The movie will be tame enough that my 13 year old niece can see it. Great. Just Fucking Great.
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some people are funny how they react to a movie.
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Aug. 20, 2011, 1:19 a.m. CST
How odd. Two different talkbackers in this thread incorrectly used the word "atypical" in the space of a few hours. Coincidence?
by Olive It Up
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imagery equals bliss. if the public cannot see past the offscreen thought. Lemmie Divulge. The debate is clear. Which hi-ho shall we go? Red splatter effects. OR. Offscreen mind implants. What would it ook like to you - with some cheesy grin. MUST. I um, utter (sic) tastefully, MUST! Must include some righteous shit. No pan offs; some hard core, brain busting, liver flying, whore guzzling scenes! ABCD... R if you know what is good for you!
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I dont know much about this property,But know enough that it has been highly anticipated by some, I honestly dont see what the problem is with it being PG-13, the studio probably made this decision so that more viewers could get in to see it. And look at The Walking Dead, great things were done with that and it was for television audiences in more or less a PG capacity,(However that show is going down the crapper without Darabont)Just wait and see there isn't too much information being given by looking at some dummies and a couple of buses.
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And fucking rocked with it's content. Both would have been R back in the 80's (or cut to shit) so shut the fuck up, yeah? Philly is early stage Zombies. Each country Brad visits they get more progressively worse as the virus takes hold and more fucked up. Don't ask me how I know, but I do ;)
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don't look so fab
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Can someone please explain why they are filming in Glasgow. Would it not be cheaper to film in Philadelphia! the cost of shipping all those vehicals over to the U.K plus cast and crew must be astronomical.
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Neither Drag Me to Hell nor Dark Knight would have been R rated back in the 80's, more like PG. Never understood why people think ratings have gotten more lax when clearly they have gotten more strict. I've seen many PG rated movies from the 70's and 80's that would now qualify as R rated let alone PG-13.
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Aug. 20, 2011, 3:24 a.m. CST
World War Z is a good book if you've never read a book before I guess
by magic_ninja
Gotta love how every character is the goddamn same and I LOVE how Max Brooks knows what certain weapons are but not what they do. Funny how everyone on this site hates stereotypes yet this awful book is full of them.
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Someone didn't do their homework.
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No zombies there, as far as I'm aware..
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Aug. 20, 2011, 4:50 a.m. CST
I feel I should stand up and say Glasgow was awesome when I went there
by A G
Less so than Edinburgh but far better than everywhere in England besides London. I don't get the constant putting down of the place and the people by talkbackers. Also, this movie looks like shit.
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Aug. 20, 2011, 6:13 a.m. CST
I FUCKING TOLD YOU ALL!!! DOESN'T GLASGOW LOOK EXACTLY LIKE RACCOON CITY!!! RE-BOOT THE RESIDENT EVIL SERIES NOW!!!
by CreepyThinMan
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Aug. 20, 2011, 6:17 a.m. CST
OH AND I READ THAT THE BUDGET IS 125 MILLION!!! THIS IS NOT, I REPEAT NOT GOING TO BE R-RATED!!!FACT!!!
by CreepyThinMan
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Aug. 20, 2011, 6:19 a.m. CST
tylerzero, "The four hanging on the rack = John, Paul, George, and Ringo", I WAS THINKING THE SAME THING!!!
by CreepyThinMan
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First comment ever, but been checking out Ain't It Cool for years. Big fan. Really chuffed a big movie is shooting in my city. Fuck all you nay-sayers - wait 'til you see the finished movie. Hope to see more flicks shot here, does anyone know more about supposed scenes from the Dark Knight Rises being shot here?
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Aug. 20, 2011, 8:33 a.m. CST
So does that make the one on the floor Pete Best?
by Grammaton Cleric Binks
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Aug. 20, 2011, 8:33 a.m. CST
you dumb clowns. Have you ever seen a real dead person at all?
by Aaron
They start to turn black, just like those dummies. I would guess these are fairly fresh corpses. Pretty realistic. If you don't like this movie already, a movie that hasn't been made yet, then go make your own. It will join the rest of the fucking awful indie zombie movies out there in Internetland. If your basis for not wanting to see this is its rating, then you are clinically retarded. Pitt is good, zombies are good, the movie JUST MIGHT be good. Fuck you.
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Aug. 20, 2011, 8:40 a.m. CST
zombies are queer and lame just like the losers who enjoy shit like this.
by alienindisguise
You're all stupid.
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are bigger than Jesus! oh shit!
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jus kiddin
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In the books the zombies have like a blackish goopish type blood, so I geuss they're sticking to that. The absence of red blood will certainly help with that PG-13 rating they're wrongfully aiming for.
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....no. Those saying that PG, PG-13 and R movies have stayed the same in content don't know what they are talking about. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Association_of_America_film_rating_system The whole thing is a sham anyway. Watch 'This Film Is Not Yet Rated'. When the difference in ratings can literally be a few seconds snipped here and there, freaking out about it is just needlessly hysterical. i wish WWZ was R. But boycotting the movie over it is moronic. They could have a more explicit original-cut waiting in the wings, and just be hedging their bets for success.
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...i ment to say, 'a few *milliseconds* snipped here and there...
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Plenty of Zombies in The Drum!!
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Aug. 20, 2011, 11:43 a.m. CST
One of extreme disappointments/bastardizations of JMS' script
by GreatOne3
Was how he followed the typical Hollywood bullshit of demonizing our military. In the book, the central underlying plot was concealing the world's use of the Redeker Plan in combating the zombie apocalypse. However, that's not good enough, becuase it doesn't demonize (a) our military; (b) the Catholic Church/religious figures; or (c) a major U.S. industry (preferably oil). You see, covering up the sacrificing of scores of people isn't good enough, you see. <p>So what JMS did was make the central underlying plot be concealing how the U.S. military screwed up the Battle of Yonkers by putting too many troops on the ground without sufficient ammunition (which was actually a major flaw in the book - what, the zombies had somehow crippled our Air Force? We had run out of Daisy Cutters and Spectre gunships? And we didn't have any technology to see that there were hundreds of thousands of zombies coming?) instead of putting the soldiers high in the surrounding buildings and letting shoot from on-high. This was such a "great secret" despite the presence of virtually every media outlet via helicopter. And to keep this great secret, the lead character is almost fed to the zombies by military personnel based upon the orders of an evil colonel. <p>Silly, stupid, lazy writing. The 2 draft versions of JMS' script overall were decent (and although inexcusable to omit the Air Force pilot's story, but I can see how it might chew up too much screen time), but going back to this tiresome trope is really disappointing.
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No zombies, but walking dead aplenty.
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They're Glaswegians.
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There are no hills in Center City Philadelphia, except for the one the Art Museum is on. The 37 Bus never goes into Center City, it runs from South Philly to the Airport, and all Philadelphia police vehicles are white with blue and yellow trim. And this movie would be shooting here if Pennsyltucky's Fascist-Republican Governor hadn't turned them away, at the same time he was throwing tax credits at Dark Knight Rises in the Pitt.
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Sci-fi films(concepts & tech) > zombie films Musicals films(music & talent)> zombie films Martial Arts Films( fight & heroism)> zombie films Fuck the mobile decomposing corpses genre. Hugo
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...a) Forster might have to deliver a PG-13 film in ODER TO GET $135 MILLION BUDGET FOR A ZOMBIE MOVIE? That without that deal, the film might not have ever been made at all? and that... b) Forster and Paramount might have agreed to a VERY HARD PG-13, or that Forster might deliver a fucking NC-17-worthy festival of zombie insanity in order to start the bargaining from a place where he'll ultimately get what a PG-13-rated film that in any other circumstance would be slapped with an R? For CHRIST'S SAKE. Anyway, the only thing that worries me about this is that, GIVEN that they might have a deal like that or that Forster is planning on doing that, that they've altered the narrative structure, judging by the official synopsis, in a major way. THAT'S the only thing that bugs me.
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Why no, no one here ever thought for a second that they might have agreed to weaken the zombie violence/effects in order get the film made. I believe you've cracked the case. (Eyes roll into back of head.)
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Aug. 20, 2011, 7:49 p.m. CST
I'm using Snyder's Dawn of the Dead as the benchmark here.
by davidwebb
You'd be deluded to think you were getting anything more than that at general release, which some people seem to. But yeah, PG13 will be pushing it slightly. It's going to be Walking Dead level stuff here.
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Aug. 21, 2011, 3:50 a.m. CST
The only time R makes a movie better is when you get to see tits
by Mel
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The first zombie is playing an invisible sax!
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Aug. 21, 2011, 11:10 a.m. CST
Busking Zombie is probably more talented than most buskers in Glasgow
by davidwebb
They're all emo-haired teens with acoustic guitars and Facebook addresses on the side of their guitar cases.
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If you are going to take the time to research street names and landmarks and recreate those street names and landmarks, to not recreate the distinctive bus line that runs the entire southeastern part of the state is lazy. Anything that takes a viewer out of the reality of the film world is bad film making.
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Seriously, who gives a crap that they got the number and name on a bus wrong. The only people who will give a shit are anal retentive Philadelphian geeks. The rest of the audience won't care. They'll be watching a zombie movie. http://preview.tinyurl.com/wwzphotos More on set photos. None of them taken in Philadelphia. I get the impression that those dummies above are prop car crash victims and not zombies. There have been a lot of car crashes on the sets.
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fucking moron.
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I agree that "PG-13 now" does not equal "R then", however, I have observed that over the last 10 or so years the application of PG-13 has changed. The "Walking Dead" has shown that you can have gross, disgusting zombie action on cable TV. It seems to me that films that get "R" ratings today have lots of f'bombs, drug use and sex/nudity. Violence or gore seems to be taken into consideration less and less as far as ratings go (which I find a bit disturbing).
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FUCK OFF
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Sept. 11, 2011, 12:35 a.m. CST
Mick Jagger and Keith Richards can play themselves in the movie! They look dead anyway!
by MrMysteryGuest
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Sept. 11, 2011, 12:38 a.m. CST
Jagger and Richards can make a dead man come in this movie!
by MrMysteryGuest
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Sept. 11, 2011, 12:43 a.m. CST
Hey, who put a pic of THE DARK KNIGHT RISES in here?!?
by MrMysteryGuest
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THIS IS FLAWED FROM THE GETGO>> ‘The story revolves around United Nations employee Gerry Lane (Brad Pitt), who traverses the world in a race against time to stop the Zombie pandemic that is toppling armies and governments and threatening to decimate humanity itself.’ The first thing the governments do when a pandemic breaks out is lock down all travel. how is he going to jet around when there is a an outbreak.. Rediculous.. i loved the book.. screw Hwood and Brad Pitt(s)
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