{"id":9278,"date":"2010-07-22T20:04:59","date_gmt":"2010-07-23T01:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=9278"},"modified":"2018-12-09T00:59:04","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T05:59:04","slug":"world-war-z-moving-forward-brad-pitt-starring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2010\/07\/22\/world-war-z-moving-forward-brad-pitt-starring\/","title":{"rendered":"WORLD WAR Z Moving Forward, Brad Pitt Starring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/BradPitt.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9279\" title=\"BradPitt\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/BradPitt-215x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"215\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Max Brooks&#8217; classic zombie apocalypse novel has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2008\/06\/01\/max-brooks-talks-world-war-z-flick\/\" target=\"_blank\">heading<\/a> towards the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/14\/forster-to-document-world-war-z\/\" target=\"_blank\">big screen<\/a> for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2009\/06\/20\/max-brooks-world-war-z-getting-new-writer\/\" target=\"_blank\">couple<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2010\/04\/23\/paramount-getting-ready-for-world-war-z\/\" target=\"_blank\">years<\/a> now, but the project is shifting in to high gear. According to Brooks, who spoke to <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20100724045953\/http:\/\/moviesblog.mtv.com\/2010\/07\/21\/brad-pitt-to-star-in-world-war-z-paramount-options-zombie-survival-guide-recorded-attacks\/\" target=\"_blank\">MTV Movies Blog<\/a> at the San Diego Comic Con yesterday, said that Paramount Pictures and production company Plan B was moving forward with the project and that Brad Pitt was attached to star.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I can&#8217;t believe how cool Paramount has been to me and these projects, and how cool Plan B has been&#8230; I&#8217;m glad they took their time, and are trying to make the best zombie  movie they can. I&#8217;m so glad they stayed with the project  and so glad they found the right team.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It comes as no surprise that Brad Pitt has attached himself to the film. Plan B is, after all, his production company. Plan B won the film rights to the book after a bidding war with Leonardo DiCaprio&#8217;s Appian Way shingle.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Brooks revealed that Paramount has optioned his original zombie book, <em>The Zombie Survival Guide<\/em> as well as <em>The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks<\/em> graphic novel which he wrote. Will these factor in to a new rewrite of the project&#8217;s script by J. Michael Straczynski with rewrites by Matthew Michael Carnahan?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Max Brooks&#8217; classic zombie apocalypse novel has been heading towards the big screen for a couple of years now, but the project is shifting in to high gear. According to Brooks, who spoke to MTV <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2010\/07\/22\/world-war-z-moving-forward-brad-pitt-starring\/\" title=\"WORLD WAR Z Moving Forward, Brad Pitt Starring\">[click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[213,22,1017,1016],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9278","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-brad-pitt","8":"tag-in-development","9":"tag-max-brooks","10":"tag-world-war-z"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9278"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=9278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}