13 Movies Already Cancelled In 2019 (And Why)

9. World War Z 2

What We Knew

Not so long ago, we were all getting lovely and excited about the strange news that David Fincher was making the long-awaited World War Z sequel. The original had been one of Brad Pitt's highest-grossing movies of all time and Paramount seemed to believe there was hope for success with a follow-up.

Sadly, the film has laboured in development hell since 2013, pretty much. JA Bayona was first hired to take it on but he dropped out to make Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (bullet dodged) and then Fincher signed on with a new script from Dennis Kelly in tow. The film even entered pre-production recently, giving us all hope it was actually happening.

And then it was killed out of nowhere.

Why It Was Cancelled & The Future

After the first movie went over budget and required extensive reshoots, Paramount were obviously concerned about the costs of a sequel and word is that it was cancelled because of budgetary issues.

They've got other, more expensive projects like Mission Impossible 7 and 8 in the works now and they're both bigger bankers than a World War Z sequel.

It could still happen, of course, but it would require some serious budgeting and you have to think that Fincher wouldn't be involved by then.