The Name’s Z, World War Z

The acclaimed zombie novel World War Z (WWZ) by Max Brooks has been on my “must read” list for a while now. It looks like the forthcoming film will also go onto my “must see” list.

Movie rights for the novel were bought by Paramount in 2006 and the project is set to be handled by Brad Pitt’s production company Plan B. The great J. Michael Straczynski is already on board for the script and now Variety reports that the World War Z will be directed by Marc Forster. Forster is currently enjoying success as director of hit James Bond film Quantum of Solace.

WWZ might turn out to be a very diferent zombie movie to the sort we’re used to seeing. The novel itself is set ten years after the actual outbreak and involves interviews for a UN Postwar Commission trying to investigate the disaster. According to Forster:

The genre always fascinated me, and when they pitched it to me, it reminded me of the paranoid conspiracy films of the ’70s like ‘All the President’s Men’