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Running Time: 1 hr 56 min
Release Date: June 2013 (USA)
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Starring: Brad Pitt, Mireille Enos, Matthew Fox, James Badge Dale, Bryan Cranston, Ed Harris
Directed by: Marc Forster
Written by: Matthew Michael Carnahan (screenplay), Damon Lindelof (screenplay), Drew Goddard (screenplay)
"United Nations employee Gerry Lane (Brad Pitt) traverses the world in a race against time to stop the Zombie pandemic that is toppling armies and governments, and threatening to decimate humanity itself. Mireille Enos plays Gerry’s wife Karen Lane; Daniella Kertesz is his comrade in arms, Segen. World War Z is an adaptation of the best-selling 2006 apocalyptic horror novel by Max Brooks. Instead of a grand narrative, the novel is a creative collection of individual accounts of survival during the 'Zombie War' where Brooks plays the role of the interviewer. The film has eschewed this format and opts for a more traditional storytelling format. Well-known writer J. Michael Straczynski wrote an initial screenplay that was truer to the source material but was tossed at the last second by Matthew Michael Carnahan to make the film more of an action movie. There's is preliminary talks of a sequel film, which is dependent upon World War Z's box office performance.”