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Shooting on the epic adaptation of Max Brooks’ World War Z has been held up following a raid on a warehouse used by the production by armed police officers in Budapest.

According to reports in Us Weekly, the SWAT team seized 85 weapons, most of which were automatic assault rifles and had been transported into the country apparently illegally. Although the accompanying paperwork claimed the weapons were non-functional, in fact they were in full working order.

“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 the magazine, adding, “Guns like these are highly illegal to transport even if they were to [be] used as stage guns, which hopefully they weren’t.”

Unsurprisingly star and producer Brad Pitt is “furious”, particularly as “the film is already over budget and over schedule,” says the magazine’s source. The police investigation is ongoing.