World War Z: Theatrical Poster and Trailer #2 online

With zombie fandom on an all time high (especially with the popularity and success of AMC's The Walking Dead), there's more things to look forward featuring the undead later this year, and one of them is an adaptation of Max Brooks' popular zombie novel "World War Z", which stars Hollywood celebrity and actor Brad Pitt! To further promote the horror and suspense to come, Paramount Pictures has released the second theatrical trailer and latest poster for the film!

World War Z: Official Trailer and Poster

Released a few days ago, the long-awaited trailer to the film adaptation of the post-apocalyptic zombie flick "World War Z" finally goes online. Starring and produced by Brad Pitt, it is based on Max Brooks' epic zombie novel of the same name, but having a different premise altogether than that of the source material. Pitt plays a United Nations employee named Gerry Lane, who tries to save his family from the zombie outbreak with the UN's help and is subsequently drafted to find survivors and a way to stop society from collapsing altogether.

First pics of World War Z with Brad Pitt appear!

Via The Daily Mail and Superherohype, it appears that shooting is well underway for World War Z, a zombie movie based on Max Brook's epic but fictitious novelization of the oral history of the "Zombie War". Brad Pitt stars in the film and plays the Brooks, who made himself into a character traversing through the world as he interviews and collects stories of those who experienced and survived their encounters against the undead ten years after humanity won against the zombie epidemic, referred to as "World War Z". Above is a shot of Pitt, all bearded and shooting a scene in Israel, which is the only country in the book to "close its borders and initiate a quarantine against the outbreak".

I can't begin to tell you how excited I am for this movie, since I am a fan of zombie lore, especially movies and comics based on them the Dead films by legendary director George A. Romero and Robert Kirkman's "The Walking Dead" come to mind!). Having a copy of the book in my personal collection, I can tell you right now that it is one of the best fictional zombie stories I've ever had the honor of reading. Influences from Romero's zombie movies, which have themes of social commentary, are present in WWZ, and while I am a bit concerned with how the film adaptation will turn out once it is completed, I have faith it will still be a great movie nonetheless. For now, we can only wait for information and details whenever it arrives online. For more on this story (as well as pics and info), you can visit the source posts at The Daily Mail and Superherohype!

World War Z, to be directed by Marc Forster, will be released sometime in 2012.

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World War Z was simply an amazing book.

Chronicling the individual accounts of several witnesses that have experienced the zombie apocalypse first hand, this 2006 Max Brooks penned novel remains one of my favorite literary fiction works, and has achieved recognition and praise from fans of the zombie genre, mostly notably for its use of social commentary on humanity's flaws and issues over one another amidst the zombie epidemic, not unlike that of George A. Romero's Living Dead films, which the novel takes great inspiration from. As a fan of zombies movies myself, I really enjoyed reading this piece, as well as the other books Mr. Brooks has chugged out for the undead hungry, such as The Zombie Survival Guide.

With good material like this selling like hotcakes, a film adaptation is never far behind, and sure enough, it's on the works now. World War Z will be receiving the big screen treatment courtesy of Paramount Pictures, with Brad Pitt's Plan B Entertainment securing the rights to the film. To be directed by Marc Forster, World War Z is slated for a summer 2012 release, with the screenplay also co-written by popculture author J. Michael Straczynski, who's known for his works in Television shows like Babylon 5, and comics like the Amazing Spider-Man and, most recently, Superman.

Speaking of Brad Pitt and his production company, Paramount has just announced in the San Diego Comic-Con that the actor will star in the film as well! Now imagine that... Brad Pitt fighting and trying to survive in a post apocalyptic zombie world! This I got to see!

For more info, check out Enewsi! World War Z opens sometime on Summer 2012!