World War Z On The Big Screen

Back in September of 2006 Max Brooks' follow up to The Zombie Survival Guide was released. In short, its a compilation of interviews conducted with the survivors of the class three world infection, or the Great Zombie War. It was an excellent read with lots of detail and enormous amount of re-readability. Before the book was even released there was a bidding war over the right for the film adaptation of the book. The two movie houses in the bidding war were Brad Pitt's company and Leonardo DiCaprio's company. Ultimately, Plan B Entertainment, owned by Brad Pitt, won. The movie has reportedly had a large six figure sum allocated to it for production costs. This book has great potential to be translated to film. The screen play has been written already by J. Michael Straczynski(Babylon 5) but so far no director has been named. I personally hope that Max Brooks has a large part to play in production and post production of this movie; he knows he zombie stuff. On IMDB, the release date is scheduled for sometime this year, but without a director tacked to the project I think we'll be lucky to see this movie by Christmas 2009.