Brad Pitt not talking about World War Z

Our hopes for a great film adaptation of Max Brook's "World War Z", the definitive modern day Zombie survival novel, appear to be rapidly evaporating. Director Marc Forster and Executive Producer/Star Brad Pitt appear to be on "Non-speaking" terms. Using Paramount studio executives as 'go-betweens' the troubled $170 million movie needs at least 3 more weeks of shooting and the key decision makers are not even returning each others calls. News has leaked that Forster lost control of the production and the film's ending needs to be completely re-shot on location in Hungary. Even if Forster is completely replaced union rules state he must be on scene for the shooting AND will get director credit.

From the story on Vulture

"Production sources tell Vulture that it is Pitt, not Forster, who has final approval over all the new pages generated by whatever writers work on the project over the next three weeks. And the communication breakdown between actor and director over how to reshoot it severely limits Paramount’s ability to foresee an end to production. Until the pages are approved, a budget cannot be calculated. And until a budget is tallied, the amount of time that will be spent to make the changes can’t be determined, either."

The long awaited film has been plagued by a string of missteps and mistakes which have all been laid at the feet of its inexperienced Director Marc Forster:

• Budapest authorities seized the prop weapons during shooting. Apparently nobody checked to see if it was ok to dress actors up in SWAT/Military gear armed with functional automatic weapons. Hungary is known for its very stringent gun control regulations.
• Babylon 5 creator  J. Michael Straczynski, who wrote what zombie fans refer to as an "Outstanding" screenplay adaptation of the book, was let go just prior to production. The new film was to focus on action and running zombies much to the chagrin of WWZ fans.
• Crew rumors strongly indicated that Marc Forster had no clue about handling large scale action movies. Leaving various seconds and unit directors autonomy to do whatever they felt like. 
• After wrapping and returning to the US the film was declared 'unfinished, but salvageable' by Paramount Pictures.
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Zombie Fans hold out hope that the movie can be pulled out of the trash bin and restored to the intended masterpiece of the genre Brad Pitt wanted to make. Sometimes labors of love require a a painful labor.