Real-Life SWAT Team Raids Set of Brad Pitt’s “World War Z”
Something interesting happened today on the Budapest set of Marc Forster’s zombie pic World War Z. A SWAT raided a warehouse used by the production and confiscated 85 fully-functional automatic assault rifles. Aside from the extreme danger of using real weapons as movie props — it only takes one idiot to sneak a bullet into the chamber of a firearm to cause a tragedy — transporting firearms internationally without authorization is apparently a very big deal.
Hajdu Janos and Zsolt Bodnar, the director and deputy director of Hungary’s Anti-Terrorism Unit, told Us Weekly: “Guns like these are highly illegal to transport even if they were to used as stage guns, which hopefully they weren’t.”
Sources told US Magazine that star and producer Brad Pitt is “furious.” The movie is already over budget and over schedule and he obviously didn’t need the additional headaches. Blame will rest on the production company who claimed in the paperwork that the weapons were non-functional movie props but turned in fact to be dangerously real.
Based on the Max Brooks’ 2006 novel “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War,” the story revolves around a United Nations employee (Pitt) who travels the world to interview survivors of a zombie war. In addition to Pitt, the cast includes Anthony Mackie, Matthew Fox, Mireille Enos, James Badge Dale, and Bryan Cranston. World War Z opens December 21st, 2012.
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So shit got real?
Indeed. Not as real someone getting shot fortunately.
Is it possible that the officials in Budapest have read the script for Ben Affleck’s Argo, about the CIA infiltrating Iran under the guise of a movie set?
I have nothing to base this on, I just think it would make a better story if it turns out that Pitt is up to some international espionage!
I have no evidence to back this up, but i believe this raid was setup as a way to bring extra publicity to the movie
Brad Pitt, international man of mystery and world superhero. Who knows how many countless lives he has already saved over the years.
Well if anyone had to combat zombies I would prefer Pitt, but I guess SWAT will do.
Now, I wonder how they make a zombie movie without weapons. I guess they can go for the closest Toys R’ Us
Walkie-talkies, man. Clearly that is a better weapon.
I second that along with a bow, arrows and a fast moving truck.
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