It always raises eyebrows when a film need extensive reshoots, as it suggests a film’s in trouble (but not always). However if a script needs major rewriting for those reshoots, it’s pretty much a guarantee a film is under major stress (although with more hope the problem can actually be sorted).
That’s what’s happening with the Brad Pitt starrer World War Z, as Prometheus screenwriter Damon Lindelof has been hired to rewrite the script for World War Z, before the zombie project undergoes extensive reshoots.
Back in March Paramount pushed the adaptation of Max Brooks’ novel from a December 21 release to June 21, 2013, and more recently it’s been revealed the reson for the delay is because of the need for around seven weeks of reshoots. Lindelof will reportedly focus his script work on the third act, although no specific story details were given. The reshoots will commence in September or October. Matthew Michael Carnahan wrote the initial screenplay.
Marc Forster is directing a cast that includes Brad Pitt, Matthew Fox, Mireille Enos, and James Badge Dale. The story revolves around a United Nations worker (Brad Pitt) who travels the world, interviewing the few human survivors of a worldwide zombie apocalypse.
Although this news is worrying, it’s doesn’t mean the finished film will be a disaster. After all, Men In Black III’s script was so problematic they shut down production partway through filming to sort it out, and that’s turned out to be a decent success. (Source: THR)
By most accounts, Isaac Newton was a genius of the highest order but was also a bit of an ass. He was notoriously difficult to get on with, not particularly social, got into petty and bitter disputes with other mathematicians, and it’s said he made his books deliberately difficult to understand, so he wouldn’t be bothered by amateur scientists, as he knew they wouldn’t be able to get through his tomes.
The increasingly massive cast of CBGB has got one of its final pieces, with Twilight actress Ashley Greene taking on one of the leads, playing Lisa Kristal, according to 
In the 80s and early 90s you couldn’t move for films based on Stephen King stories, but things have been fairly quiet for the past few years. However there’s been a resurgence of interest, with remakes of the likes of Carrie and Pet Sematary in the works, while Warner is working on The Stand and Ron Howard still hopes to make The Dark Tower. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg of the King-based films in development.
At the moment it’s nothing more than rumour, but 
Sony’s plans to get White House Down into production as quickly as possible continue apace, as just yesterday we reported Jamie Foxx was in talks to join Channing Tatum in the movie, and now Maggie Gyllenhaal has joined the steadily growing cast of director Roland Emmerich’s film.
Warner Bros. is planning a new action-adventure based on The Guinness Book of World Records. Yup, that’s right, Hollywood has reached the point where they’re so desperate for films to be based on known properties, they’re trying to adapt The Guinness Book of World Records, hiring The Office writer Daniel Chun to work on the script.
While Emma Watson said she was going to college after Harry Potter and then put those plans on hold for a year to pursue more acting gigs, it appears she won’t be back at university, at least this year, as she’s now in talks to join director Darren Aronofsky’s Biblical epic Noah, according to