Filmmakers on the currently shooting WORLD WAR Z, a flick that has a cast led by Brad Pitt, ran into a bit of trouble yesterday after the set was raided by real life SWAT officers in Bucharest where 80+ ‘prop’ firearms were seized.
We say prop as some of the guns found were allegedly fully functional and extremely dangerous weapons, and were described as “automatic, military-style assault rifles.”
“We can confirm that weapons were confiscated at an airport,” Hajdu Janos and Zsolt Bodnar, the director and deputy director of Hungary’s Anti-Terrorism Unit, told US Weekly.
“This morning a private plane brought guns wrapped in a parcel from a company to an individual [in Budapest],” Janos and Bodnar add. “Guns like these are highly illegal to transport even if they were to used as stage guns, which hopefully they weren’t.”
Oh dear. The film is set for release in December 2012. Marc Forster is directing the flick, which is based on the novel by Max Brooks.
