Talk about any woman’s fantasy! How would it feel to be rescued by actor Brad Pitt? One woman can tell the tale of Brad Pitt saving her on the set of Paramount Pictures’ big-screen adaptation of the Max Brooks book, World War Z, in Glasgow, Scotland.
[Above: Brad Pitt on set of World War Z]
According to Metro, Pitt spotted the female extra that had slipped and fallen to the ground and carried her to safety during filming of an intense action scene. A stampede of seven hundred extras playing zombies and terrified citizens and American soldiers were running down the street “banging into moving cars, cameras and military who were carrying heavy machine guns.”
[On set in Glasgow of World War Z]
An insider reported their account what happened:
“Lots of people hurt themselves, and Brad came to the rescue of a woman who slipped. I don’t think she could believe it when Brad picked her up.
He didn’t have time to speak to her as it was mid-shoot. But she said afterwards how grateful she was, despite having a badly-grazed knee.”
World War Z stars Pitt as Gerry Lane, a worker at the United Nations Post-War Commission, who traverses the world in a race against time to stop the Zombie pandemic that is toppling armies and governments and threatening to decimate humanity itself. The film also stars Mireille Enos (AMC’s “The Killing”) as Pitt’s character’s wife, Daniella Kertesz in her feature film debut, James Badge Dale (The Departed) and Matthew Fox (“Lost”). World War Z is directed by Marc Forster with script was written by Matthew Michael Carnahan (State of Play).
[Above: Zombie dummies on set of World War Z]
Max Brooks, author of the 2006 novel, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War, recently visited the set and was blown away by how much people were excited for the filming of the movie in Glasgow. Brooks talks about his impressions of the production with Daily Record:
“It’s incredible. Brad Pitt really conquered the city. I’ve never seen this much enthusiasm for a film and everyone is really excited to be working with all these people cheering and watching.
I was on set watching a scene where Brad Pitt is running with his family, and a hundred extras running with him, and behind us was a crowd of about 500 people just watching. The assistant director said how great it would be if only we had the money to hire all the people in behind us.
I also had lunch with the zombies and they’re great. They look very much like what my impression would be of new zombies who had not really begun to rot, kind of like phase one zombies.
They have a zombie school, where they are teaching extras how to act like zombies, and from talking to people on set they have really put a lot of research into everything.
It was incredible to see it for myself and I’m still amazed they are making a movie of the book.
I heard Brad Pitt had optioned the rights and I thought, ‘That’s cool’ but it probably wouldn’t ever get made because most optioned projects never do, so it was the biggest shock in the world to me when my wife showed me pictures on her computer of Brad Pitt in Malta filming World War Z.
I’m still waiting to wake up from this one.”
World War Z is slated to hit theaters on December 21, 2012.
