UPDATE: Paramount pulls World War Z sequel and Friday The 13th reboot from schedule
2013’s World War Z was one of the biggest hits of Brad Pitt’s career, but Variety is reporting that Paramount has just pulled its long-in-the-works sequel from the release schedule. The film was supposed to open this June against Tom Cruise’s The Mummy, so there’s a chance Paramount got scared off, but the fact that we haven’t heard anything about the World War Z sequel for a while does seem like a red flag. Also, as an interesting side note, Variety says the film hasn’t been canned entirely and has been moved to a different release date, but the studio hasn’t actually announced what that date is, so that sounds like another bad sign.