Brad Pitt is back for World War Z Sequel, More Details

World War Z, the 2013 apocalyptic movie that has very little in common with the book it was based on is getting a sequel. It wasn't initially clear if the story would pick up where the first film ended, but Variety reports that lead actor Brad Pitt (Se7ven, Interview With a Vampire) who played United Nations medical investigator Gerry Lane in the previous film is back.

Steven Knight (Shutter Island) is writing the screenplay for the second World War Z film, and J.A. Bayona (The Orphanage,The Impossible) will be directing.

It's still more or less a mystery to me why World War Z the movie exists in the first place.. As someone who has read the Max Brooks novel, I can guarantee 100% that none of the scenes that unfolded on screen came from the book, which focused on a reporter collecting interviews of survivors after the plague has ravished the world. That was what made the book engaging for me. The zombie apocalypse has ended, humanity has triumphed, but we are left picking up the pieces of our broken societies and looking back at the price we paid for survival. I understand that adapting stories from one medium to the next means changing certain things, and I was ready for that. What I wasn't quite ready for was an entirely new story. Literally the only thing that film kept was the title of the novels. They could have named it "Zombie Plague" and avoided paying Max Brooks royalties.

Gripes aside, World War Z was a solid movie. Although the first movie ended on what I always thought was a neat, definitive note, the return of Pitt as Gerry Lane probably hits that there is more to the story than where we left off.

World War Z2 comes out in theaters in June 2017.