An entirely different third act was scripted and partially filmed after the plane escapes from Jerusalem. Gerry Lane and Segen land in Russia, where they and all healthy people are immediately drafted into the Russian army, while the elderly and sick are executed. Months later, during winter, Lane finds out that the zombies move much slower in the cold. The undead eventually lay siege to Moscow's Red Square, and are battled by an army of enslaved people armed with shovel-like weapons called lobos. The climactic battle scene in Russia, for which there was 12 minutes of footage, had Lane fighting through zombies more like "a warrior hero" than "the sympathetic family man" of the earlier acts, even using sick soldiers as a human shield. The second-unit director, Simon Crane, said, "It wasn't character-driven anymore... [The filmmakers] really needed to think about what they wanted to do with the third act." When the studio agreed to re-write and re-shoot the film to conclude with a more personal ending, director Marc Forster admitted he was relieved and happy, because it came much closer to how he and Brad Pitt had originally envisioned the film to be. Shots of the deleted battle were used in the movie's closing montage.

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