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Brad Pitt on set in Glasgow for World War Z
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Brad Pitt goes from Hollywood to Heron Wood

By Jack Sommers
August 31, 2011

BRAD Pitt has come to Aldershot to film scenes from his latest movie.

The star and his wife Angelina Jolie are, according to reports, here with their children to film scenes for his upcoming Hollywood zombie action film World War Z.

The set, in the town’s military garrison, is further away from passers-by than the street set in Glasgow where Pitt was filming last month.

There are signs up saying ‘HCZ’, which has been taken by fans to mean World War Z.

The set was built last month and is the same site used to film scenes from the last Bond film, Quantum of Solace.

It includes a lot of scaffolding and a screen hiding it from the road. There also appears to be a giant green screen within the structure.

Green screens are used by film special effects teams to project images, landscapes and computer-generated action sequences behind actors during the post-production process.

World War Z is based on a novel about a worldwide zombie apocalypse and is due for release next year.

Online, one person claimed to be delivering to the set every day and added that security was very high.

Another person wrote that there was another World War Z set on the IQ Business Park in Farnborough.

Maurice Hibberd contacted the News & Mail to say he was in Glasgow with his wife two weeks ago and came across the film set where dozens of extras, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie were present.

Part of the city had been sealed off and turned into a post-zombie apocalypse section of a city for the film.

He said: “When talking to members of the crew, they were interested to know what Aldershot is like because the whole team were coming down to continue filming.

“They will be here for some time, Angelina and Brad, and I think, their children, will all be in this part of the country.”

Reports said the film-makers chose Glasgow because it resembled Philadelphia, where the story is set. There was no word on what Aldershot was meant to resemble.

“I wonder, if they’re after some bleak post-holocaust urban centre, both Aldershot and Farnborough fit the bill,” one anonymous person commented on the internet.

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maybe they are here to look for the next child they plan to adopt

sleeping beauty
08/09/2011 at 23:06

Lol, Aldershot Military Town is in Aldershot, doesn't the word Aldershot before Military town say it all.

Just like Farnborough Airport is in Farnborough, It's in the names. Which is also used a lot for films. They are both diffrent places in there towns.

Chip Hazzard, Aldershot
07/09/2011 at 22:41

The set is not in Aldershot but in the Military Town, which is between Aldershot and Farnborough and a fair way from either town centre.. It is located on what used to be a Motor Transport Pool. When much more of the Army was based at Aldershot than is now the case, that area was full of Army vehicles.I recall it being packed with vehicles in desert camouflage which had recently returned from Iraq/Kuwait after the Gulf War in the early 1990s.

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