Brad Pitt’s “World War Z” sequel back on track with new scribeOctober 31, 2015 - 15:57 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Although there was a setback, "World War Z 2" is officially back on track. Paramount has hired a new writer to pick up from an earlier draft penned by "Burnt" scribe Steven Knight, AceShowbiz reveals. The first "World War Z" director Marc Foster had announced in October 2013 that he won't return for the sequel. A hunt for new director landed on Spanish helmer J.A. Bayona whose credit include "The Impossible" and TV series "Penny Dreadful". Words are, he was also offered to direct Universal's "Jurassic World 2" and that scared Paramount. According to THR, the studio wanted to keep Bayona in deal by hiring Dennis Kelly to rewrite the script. Fanboy-friendly, Kelly has worked on the popular U.K.'s Channel 4 series "Utopia". After the change, Bayona is now "squarely on board to direct". Skydance Productions is co-producing and co-financing the film which is scheduled to open in theaters June 9, 2017. Brad Pitt, who is producing the pic, is up to reprise his role. "We're certainly talking about it, yes," he said at 2013 Toronto Film Festival. "We have so many ideas on the table from the time we spent developing this thing and figuring out how the zombie worlds work." The first film picked up materials from Max Brooks' novel of the same name. Matthew Michael Carnahan, Drew Goddard and Damon Lindelof wrote the script with J. Michael Straczynski receiving story by credit. "We have so many ideas and so much information - we think we have a lot of stuff to mine from," Pitt continued. "We gotta get the script right first to determine if we go further. We'll wait and see how the script turns out but yes, I'd love to come back." Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | India wants Armenia’s proposals on use of Chabahar port India is expecting proposals from Armenia regarding the use of Chabahar port in Iran, Indian ambassador says. EU welcomes Armenia-Azerbaijan “progress” The EU has welcomed “progress” made in the framework of the Armenia-Azerbaijan border delimitation process. Belarus opposition leader slams Lukashenko for Karabakh trip Belarusian opposition politician Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya has harshly criticized the visit of Lukashenko to Karabakh. Mkhitaryan raises arrest of former Karabakh leaders in Azerbaijan Inter Milan star Henrikh Mkhitaryan has shared a news story about the extension of the arrest of former Karabakh leaders. |