Comments on: Marc Forster Won’t Return for World War Z Sequel https://filmjunk.com/2013/10/03/marc-forster-wont-return-for-world-war-z-sequel/ The World's Longest-Running Movie Podcast Fri, 24 Sep 2021 00:22:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.33 By: PlanBFromOuterSpace https://filmjunk.com/2013/10/03/marc-forster-wont-return-for-world-war-z-sequel/comment-page-1/#comment-6932456 Fri, 04 Oct 2013 05:03:00 +0000 http://www.filmjunk.com/?p=102009#comment-6932456 How about Brett Ratner? No one likes to admit that the guy knows what he’s doing, but he’s shown that he can be brought on to a troubled project (not that the sequel is in trouble yet or anything) and come in on time and on budget without really rocking the boat. He catches a lot of unnecessary flack for the third X-Men flick, but when Fox was more concerned with hitting a release date (that was set in stone before the game of musical director’s chairs began) than making the movie that SHOULD have been made, he was able to swoop in and make something passable. The script had all sorts of problems, sure, but he didn’t write the damn thing. He’s a good gun for hire, good with action, and pretty good at keeping things moving, which is something a large-scale zombie flick certainly needs to do. As mentioned before, this isn’t exactly a director’s franchise, but Brett Ratner is hardly accused of being a visionary, and I’d like to see him get another crack at a big blockbuster franchise flick.

]]> By: Gerry https://filmjunk.com/2013/10/03/marc-forster-wont-return-for-world-war-z-sequel/comment-page-1/#comment-6932452 Thu, 03 Oct 2013 23:08:00 +0000 http://www.filmjunk.com/?p=102009#comment-6932452 The probable reason WWZ wasn’t as good as it could’ve been was the rewrites by different writers and apparently going into shooting the film while still writing it.
Trusting one writer and not giving them numerous notes when you don’t know how to write would probably work.

I read the book which was really good. I think there’s scope for a really good sequel involving a white South African apartheid war criminal type’s tactics and the broad thrust of how the zombies were defeated worldwide.

A good script is the only reason the sequel will be good. As usual the director isn’t that important, with a talented TV jobber probably doing as good a job as a big name hollywood type.

Will Hollywood realise that? Of course not, with the writer(s) being seen as little more than glorified runners / gophers.

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