If you take an auteur director and have them make a blockbuster sequel, then expect it to be different from the predecessor. The Brad Pitt-starring World War Z adaptation was set to have a sequel by David Fincher, who thought to make it more like The Last of Us. In an interview with GQ, the interviewer was a big fan of the book by Max Brooks, which was nothing like the 2013 movie. While we will never see this movie, he gave some details on what it could have been.
David Fincher Would Have Made His World War Z Sequel Like The Last of Us
When asked about his take, the director said it was “a little like” the Naughty Dog video game that was turned into an HBO series earlier this year. The one detail he gave was from the title sequence, which was “going to use the little parasite.”
Now that we had the first season of the HBO series, the popular video game had reached new heights and audiences, like the Gone Girl director. He was “glad” that it didn’t happen as “The Last of Us has a lot more real estate to explore the same stuff.”
The original novel was a series of short stories about the planet during a zombie apocalypse. These were classic Romero zombies, slow and dumb and hungry. The movie accelerated the pacing as the zombies did not just run like seen in REC, Dawn of the Dead (2004), and 28 Days Later. They ran and when in a horde, flowed almost like water or a type of insect. It grossed $540 million worldwide.
The David Fincher World War Z sequel never came due to multiple reasons. Restrictions on the genre from China, conflicting schedules between the leading star and director, and its budget ultimately sunk the idea.
