David Fincher never got to make his 'World War Z' sequel - but the director has spoken about what may have been of the film before Paramount pulled the plug on it.
'World War Z', adapted from Max Brooks' 2006 novel, was released in 2013 and was directed by Marc Forster. Brad Pitt starred as a former United Nations investigator who travelled in search of a cure for the zombie plague that had swept across the globe.
The story was allegedly visualised as a trilogy, and Spanish director J.A. Bayona was installed as the director of the sequel - but the project was repeatedly pushed back and Bayona eventually left the project. Fincher was then confirmed by Paramount as the director for the sequel in 2017, with Pitt set to return - but after further repeated delays, Paramount ultimately halted pre-production.
Now, however, Fincher - whose new film 'The Killer' is out this week - has said that he was ultimately glad that they didn't make the film. He said that 'The Last of Us', HBO's hugely successful zombie apocalypse adaptation of the video game of the same name, had more scope to delve into that world than he would have been afforded.
“I’m glad that we didn’t do what we were doing, because The Last of Us has a lot more real estate to explore the same stuff," he said. "In our title sequence, we were going to use the little parasite … they used it in their title sequence, and in that wonderful opening with the Dick Cavett, David Frost-style talk show."
