(CelebNMusic247 News) Brad Pitt‘s World War Z Gets Director!
Director Juan Antonio Bayona has officially signed on to helm World War Z and the zombie pandemic invasion film.
Paramount’s World War Z movie adaptation is many things, chief among them being a surprise box office smash ($540 million worldwide) that managed to earn decent critical reactions. Moreover, it appears that may be remedied in the sequel that is currently in development, now that WWZ director Marc Forster has been replaced by a filmmaker with more experience in the field of generating scares and creeping moviegoers out.
Here’s the drop via THR:
Juan Antonio Bayona has signed on to direct the WWZ followup, after having met with and impressed Brad Pitt (who will produce the project, in addition to reprising his role as highly-skilled ex-UN employee Gerry Lane). The search is now on for a writer to pen the script (under Bayona’s supervision), but it remains uncertain what the story will entail this time around. Well, besides people fighting zombies, anyway.
Of course, there’s many a freak and disturbing scenario that remains open for adaptation from Brooks’ source material, which is a collection of interviews with survivors about their experiences during the zombie virus’ worldwide breakout. Pitt has indicated that the plan is for the WWZ sequel to explore the post-zombie invasion world in greater depth, so it’s certainly possible that some of the fan-favorite incidents detailed in Brook’s novel will end up being the inspiration for various scenes and/set pieces in the next film.
We are looking forward the sequel and congrats to director Juan Antonio Bayona. Please make it a tab more scary.
