World War Z Page #2

Synopsis: Life for former United Nations investigator Gerry Lane and his family seems content. Suddenly, the world is plagued by a mysterious infection turning whole human populations into rampaging mindless zombies. After barely escaping the chaos, Lane is persuaded to go on a mission to investigate this disease. What follows is a perilous trek around the world where Lane must brave horrific dangers and long odds to find answers before human civilization falls.
Director(s): Marc Forster
Production: Paramount Pictures
  3 wins & 24 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.0
Metacritic:
63
Rotten Tomatoes:
66%
PG-13
Year:
2013
116 min
$202,351,611
Website
14,737 Views


Rach?

Rachel, baby, you've got

to get back in your seat.

- Baby, we need you in your seat.

- GERRY:
Put your belt on!

KARIN:
Rachel, right now!

- Gerry?

- Rach, get your belt back on!

(ALL GRUNTING)

(HIGH-PITCHED WHINING)

(MUFFLED GASPING)

- You okay?

- GERRY:
You okay?

- Rachel, sweetheart?

- Rachel, you hurt?

- KARIN:
Connie?

- Are you okay? It's okay.

(PEOPLE CLAMORING)

We should get out.

Everybody out of the car.

(CLAMORING)

(SCREAMING)

GERRY:
We've got to get out of the city.

Her door won't open!

Rachel, go out that side.

Okay, you have to climb over, honey.

OFFICER:
Out of the way!

Move it!

(PEOPLE SCREAMING)

Come on, honey. Come on.

(PEOPLE SCREAMING)

Sweetheart, are you okay?

(SIRENS WAILING)

(SNARLING)

(PANTING)

(SCREAMS)

Let's go. Let's get off the street.

(SNARLING)

(SCREAMS)

What is that, Gerry? What is that?

I don't know!

Get to the RV.

Subway Sam!

Here comes the number 12 train! One.

Two.

- What's happening?

- SUBWAY SAM:
Three.

Four.

- (SNARLING)

- Five.

Six.

Seven.

- (GROANING)

- Eight.

Nine.

Ten.

Eleven.

Twelve.

Train's in the station!

(SCREAMING)

(GASPS)

Gerry!

- KARIN:
Watch out!

- (GRUNTING)

POLICEMAN:

We're pulling back on Fifth Street!

COMMAND OFFICER:

Containment is a fail.

- KARIN:
Try to relax.

- (RACHEL GASPING)

Give yourself air.

In and out.

- Come on, baby, try to relax.

- (COUGHING)

Gerry? We left my purse in the car.

Where's her spare?

I'm gonna go check

your backpack, all right?

Do you want to be with her?

(HONKING)

(RACHEL GASPING)

GERRY:
Rach, you'll be all right.

You're gonna be all right.

Hey, hey, you breathe

through your nose.

Rach, Rach, look at me. Look at me.

You're gonna be all right.

You've done this a hundred times.

Look at me. Look at me.

Breathe in through your nose,

out through your mouth.

(GASPING)

Okay, we're gonna go to a pharmacy.

We gotta move.

(BREATHES DEEPLY)

Okay.

- (ENGINE STALLING)

- GERRY:
Good. Good. Look.

Look at me, look at me.

Rach, breathe through your nose.

KARIN:
(SOFTLY) No, no, no, no...

(EXHALES) You're gonna be all right.

- Look at me.

- Daddy, what are those things?

Honey, find us some water.

Okay? Something to drink.

(RACHEL GASPS)

(CELL PHONE RINGING)

It's Thierry.

Where are you?

THIERRY:
Airborne.

Lower East Side to Turtle Bay.

It's all gone. We barely made it out.

- Tell him to go south.

- No, no, we need visual confirmation.

- (ENGINE SPUTTERING)

- No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

What is this?

We don't know. How close were you?

Face to face.

Good, honey, good.

Daddy.

Connie, give me that.

Give me that. Oh, thank you, honey.

THIERRY:
Where are you?

GERRY:
95, heading north.

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Matthew Michael Carnahan

Matthew Michael Carnahan (sometimes credited as Matt Carnahan) is an American screenwriter who wrote the feature film The Kingdom (2007), and the film adaptation of the hit BBC television drama serial State of Play. Carnahan also wrote the screenplay for Lions for Lambs for United Artists. His brother is Joe Carnahan, who wrote and directed Narc (2002), Smokin' Aces (2006) and The A-Team (2010). More recently, he worked on the screenplay for the zombie film World War Z (2013). He wrote the screenplay for the film adaptation of Nemesis with his brother Joe Carnahan. more…

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