Brad Pitt is officially returning to the zombie franchise that made him one of the genre’s biggest stars, confirmed to lead Paramount’s long-awaited World War Zsequel with Edward Berger, the German filmmaker behind All Quiet on the Western Frontand Conclave, set to direct.
British playwright Dennis Kelly, known for writing the book for Matilda: The Musical, has penned the script, plot details remain under wraps.
The original 2013 film, based on Max Brooks’s bestselling 2006 novel World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War, grossed more than $540 million worldwide, making it the highest-grossing zombie film of all time.
Pitt starred as Gerry Lane, a former United Nations investigator racing to stop a fast-spreading zombie pandemic.
A sequel has been in development for over a decade, with Pitt’s longtime collaborator David Fincher once attached to direct before budget issues derailed that version in 2019, a source previously told The Hollywood Reporterthat China’s ban on zombie films was also a factor in the earlier attempt’s collapse.
2026-09-19 00:53:00
