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Gerry Lane (Brad Pitt) ends the World War Z in a World Health Organization facility with a few fellow survivors, but the knowledge he searches is at the center of the structure—which has been overtaken by the infected. Lane infects himself with a pathogen that can conceal him from others who are infected, therefore enabling him to stroll past the raging zombies safely in the reshot World War Z conclusion that made it to film.
With an optimistic ending for the survivors and maybe setting up World War Z 2, a montage closing the film depicts humanity rebuffing against the swarm. But the intended finale for World War Z started with Lane and Segen (Daniella Kertesz) going to Moscow and being promptly enlisted into the army designed to fight the zombies. Originally concluding with a time skip showing a bearded Lane still fighting in Russia during the winter, the WHO building is not visited. It is at this period he discovers the zombies move slower in the cold, which benefits the humans in these circumstances.
The incomplete script of World War Z resulted in this darker ending since work on the movie started not fully developed. Though Marc Forster assembled the initial cut of the movie after filming was finished, Paramount officials and Pitt disapproved of the finale. Those who saw the early edit of World War Z said, via Vanity Fair, the ending was "abrupt and incoherent," which fits the footage that has subsequently been made public.
Paramount paid tens of millions of dollars filming over forty minutes of the 2-hour blockbuster, recruited Damon Lindelof to rewrite World War Z's script, and ordered seven weeks of Reshoots to alter the finale. World War Z's budget ballooned to over $200 million, but film still performed rather well at the box office, making $540M globally.
World War Z is indeed a far different narrative than the source material it draws on. Max Brooks's book is a far more expansive tale with no one protagonist than Pitt's Gerry Lane on a globe-trotting odyssey to save the planet from the zombie epidemic. Rather, it looks at the beginnings, the conflict, and the aftermath of the zombie epidemic from a range of personalities all around. It considers the worldwide consequences and highlights the several ways the planet responds and handles the problem.
Likewise, the conclusion is much different from the film as well. There is no need for a rescue operation or a father seeing his family since Gerry Lane's book lacks a heroic lead. Furthermore lacking in the movie is a miracle cure. Rather, the novel looks at the slow triumph humans has over the zombies, a mix of violence, cruelty, and fortitude. Certain nations choose to utilize some of their inhabitants as bait so that the more populated areas may get time to get ready for war.
The ending and script revisions of the World War Z produced caused a variety of production issues; however, the source material demands a better adaptation, which still possible in a sequel. Although Paramount's sequel ideas have since been shelved, David Fincher's allegedly World War Z 2 plot finally shows that the vaccination Gerry Lane used in the ending only works for 36 hours and that world political tensions are still rising as the zombie army expands and overfevers over more areas.
Deeper into virology and world politics, World War Z 2 could fix the problems with the first film, provide the story a more considered and tone-appropriate climax, and lastly honor the 2006 apocalyptic horror novel of the same name that stretched the zombie genre beyond its bounds.
World War Z chronicles a world devastated by a zombie outbreak based on the Max Brooks book. Former UN investigator Gerry Lane (Brad Pitt) braves the end in quest of a cure. Reluctantly doing so in return for his family's safety, he is assigned to identify the virus's point of origin in order to manufacture a vaccination. His search brings him all the destruction of the apocalypse as he travels the planet.
The finished work successfully caught the core of the book, even if there was some challenge getting the movie to the screen. Given the multiple years of production on the series, the box office success and narrative of the film will surely pique the interest of zombie aficionados. Viewers are probably searching for a compelling narrative, thus it also shows the showrunner's capacity to produce one.