The Spanish director John Anthony Bayonne will be the director of the second installment of "World War Z".
After his tour of Hollywood with «Impossible«, A Spanish production film that won the odd American award, in addition to the Oscar nomination for Naomi Watts, the Catalan director will shoot his first American film.
Paramount Pictures y skydance They have chosen Juan Antonio Bayona from a short list of candidates they were considering and the director has already met with Brad Pitt who is also in charge of producing the film through his production company Plan B, as well as supervising plot lines for it.
The first installment of «World War Z»Was a great success, raising more than 500 million dollars, although it must be taken into account that the production cost was more than 200 to which we must also add 120 that were dedicated to promoting the film.
La big fundraiser of the film has allowed us to propose this second installment that will have Spanish direction, despite the fact that the critics of the first part were not entirely enthusiastic.
What remains to be seen is whether the role of Brad Pitt in this project he is simply the producer or if he will replay the title role of the film, something that we will surely discover shortly.
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