World War Z Release Delayed Until 2013

While previously set for a Christmas 2012 release date, zombie fans will have to wait a bit longer to see World War Z on the big screen. Paramount has announced a few date shifts for their upcoming release schedule.

Tom Cruise's One Shot has been moved into World War Z's December 21st spot, moving World War Z to June 21st, 2013. A live action/CGI Ninja Turtles movie from Jonathan Liebesman has also been given a release date of Christmas, 2013. We always thought that Christmas was a bad time to release a zombie movie, so hopefully the new summer slot shows that Paramount is confident in the movie going up against other summer tentpoles. The new release date puts World War Z one week after the release of the new Superman film.

Based on the Max Brooks novel, World War Z is directed by Marc Forster (Quantum of Solace) and stars Brad Pitt, Mireille Enos, Matthew Fox, and James Badge.

“World War Z tells the story of the world’s desperate battle against the zombie threat with a series of first-person accounts ‘as told to the author’ by various characters around the world. A Chinese doctor encounters one of the earliest zombie cases at a time when the Chinese government is ruthlessly suppressing any information about the outbreak that will soon spread across the globe. The tale then follows the outbreak via testimony of smugglers, intelligence officials, military personnel and many others who struggle to defeat the zombie menace.”