Post by loverofbeers on Oct 12, 2011 2:09:36 GMT -5
I saw the story tonight on BBC news, but this is a Huffington Post article, so credit them even though they made a mistake in their last sentence.
'World War Z' Set Raided By Hungarian Anti-Terrorism Unit
Posted: 10/10/11 02:16 PM ET
He was just trying to save the world from zombies, okay?
Things got a little too real on the set of Brad Pitt's upcoming zombie apocalypse film "World War Z" recently, as Hungarian anti-terrorism authorities swept the set and seized a cache of unauthorized weapons. Us Weekly reports that police in Budapest, where the film moved after shooting in Glasgow, took 85 functional weapons, many of which were automatic assault rifles similar to those used by the military.
The problem? The weapons weren't actually supposed to work.
"Guns like these are highly illegal to transport even if they were to used as stage guns, which hopefully they weren't," Hajdu Janos and Zsolt Bodnar, the director and deputy director of Hungary's Anti-Terrorism Unit, told the magazine.
This marks yet another snafu on the film's set; back in August, a planned human stampede became a true danger zone, and Pitt had to swoop in and rescue a woman who was being trampled on by the running extras.
The film, based on the hit book by Max Brooks, features Pitt as a UN employee trying to prevent a zombie takeover of the world.
And of all things the People magazine article follows.
Brad Pitt Film Set Raided by SWAT Team
By Liz Raftery
Monday October 10, 2011 04:45 PM EDT
Hungarian police raided the set of Brad Pitt's upcoming zombie movie, World War Z, Monday, seizing 85 weapons from a warehouse in Budapest.
The stash included automatic weapons such as AK-47s and sniper rifles, which were equipped with live ammunition, police confirmed.
"The 85 weapons were seized in Budapest at a warehouse because they were not fully inoperable as they were supposed to be," Hungarian authorities told PEOPLE.
Calling the arsenal "a disaster waiting to happen," police cautioned that a deadly accident could have occurred, according to X17.
"We are working with the authorities to resolve the matter and have no further comment at this time," a publicist for the film said Monday.
World War Z is scheduled to be released in 2012.
Picture, Mr. Pitt on the set of WWZ in Scotland in August.
'World War Z' Set Raided By Hungarian Anti-Terrorism Unit
Posted: 10/10/11 02:16 PM ET
He was just trying to save the world from zombies, okay?
Things got a little too real on the set of Brad Pitt's upcoming zombie apocalypse film "World War Z" recently, as Hungarian anti-terrorism authorities swept the set and seized a cache of unauthorized weapons. Us Weekly reports that police in Budapest, where the film moved after shooting in Glasgow, took 85 functional weapons, many of which were automatic assault rifles similar to those used by the military.
The problem? The weapons weren't actually supposed to work.
"Guns like these are highly illegal to transport even if they were to used as stage guns, which hopefully they weren't," Hajdu Janos and Zsolt Bodnar, the director and deputy director of Hungary's Anti-Terrorism Unit, told the magazine.
This marks yet another snafu on the film's set; back in August, a planned human stampede became a true danger zone, and Pitt had to swoop in and rescue a woman who was being trampled on by the running extras.
The film, based on the hit book by Max Brooks, features Pitt as a UN employee trying to prevent a zombie takeover of the world.
And of all things the People magazine article follows.
Brad Pitt Film Set Raided by SWAT Team
By Liz Raftery
Monday October 10, 2011 04:45 PM EDT
Hungarian police raided the set of Brad Pitt's upcoming zombie movie, World War Z, Monday, seizing 85 weapons from a warehouse in Budapest.
The stash included automatic weapons such as AK-47s and sniper rifles, which were equipped with live ammunition, police confirmed.
"The 85 weapons were seized in Budapest at a warehouse because they were not fully inoperable as they were supposed to be," Hungarian authorities told PEOPLE.
Calling the arsenal "a disaster waiting to happen," police cautioned that a deadly accident could have occurred, according to X17.
"We are working with the authorities to resolve the matter and have no further comment at this time," a publicist for the film said Monday.
World War Z is scheduled to be released in 2012.
Picture, Mr. Pitt on the set of WWZ in Scotland in August.