World War Z may be coming to the big screen

Looks like the popularity for Zombieland is helping out other zombie projects. According to Slice of Scifi(not SyFy) the script for World War Z by Max Brooks is out of script limbo and is currently in re-wrights.

The rights to World War Z was bought by Plan B Entertainment (Brad Pitt’s production company) and Marc Forster(Quantum of Solace) has been signed as the Director. The initial script was written by J. Michael Straczynski(creator of Babylon 5).

Wow! The production company of “Troy” and “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, Director of “Quantum of Solace” and the writer of “Babylon 5”. I can’t wait to see this one in a few years

No Zombie today? Zombie tomorrow. Always Zombie tomorrow. Great book, I sure hope the movie delivers.

…but I heard about this many months ago, even the JMS screenplay bit. Has there been a status change? The Zombieland connection seems tenuous.