Recently, Paramount’s new studio chief Jim Gianopulos stated that he and Brad Pitt were trying to court director David Fincher (who has collaborated with Brad Pitt on a number of iconic films) into directing the long-gestating sequel to World War Z.
Now, during an interview with THR, Gianopulos has confirmed that David Fincher will indeed be directing World War Z 2 and that Brad Pitt will be returning to star in the zombie-action epic.
Considering that the first film did not stick to the novel at all (to be fair, the structure of the book doesn’t necessarily make it an easy adaptation), it could be seen as a reassuring note that the sequel will likely be the director constructing his own feature from scratch, while obviously accounting for events in the first movie.
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Originally published June 23, 2017. Updated April 16, 2018.
