New WORLD WAR Z Movie Announced, Starring Brad Pitt and Directed by Edward Berger

It's been years since there's been any real movement on a World War Z sequel, but Paramount Pictures announced today that they are officially moving forward with a sequel, with Brad Pitt set to star and Edward Berger (Conclave, All Quiet on the Western Front, The Terror) set to direct. While plot details have been kept under wraps, we've been told that Dennis Kelly will write the script, with it based on Max Brooks’ 2006 novel, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War.

Pitt, Dede Gardner, and Jeremy Kleiner will produce on behalf of Plan B Entertainment, with Berger as an executive producer. The film marks a continued collaboration between Pitt and Berger, following The Riders, which they filmed earlier this year and will be released by A24. The original film, which earned more than $540 million at the worldwide box office, was a box office success at the height of zombie popularity, but a sequel had failed to materialize until now. We'll share more details as they become available!

If you haven't read Max Brooks' 2006 novel, it's very different from the 2013 film, and I'd highly recommend it as your next read!

"We survived the zombie apocalypse, but how many of us are still haunted by that terrible time? We have (temporarily?) defeated the living dead, but at what cost? Told in the haunting and riveting voices of the men and women who witnessed the horror firsthand, World War Z is the only record of the pandemic. The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors, traveled across the United States of America and throughout the world, from decimated cities that once teemed with upwards of thirty million souls to the most remote and inhospitable areas of the planet. He recorded the testimony of men, women, and sometimes children who came face-to-face with the living, or at least the undead, hell of that dreadful time. World War Z is the result. Never before have we had access to a document that so powerfully conveys the depth of fear and horror, and also the ineradicable spirit of resistance, that gripped human society through the plague years."