"QUANTUM OF SOLACE" Director Takes on "WORLD WAR Z" !

Marc Forster ("QUANTUM OF SOLACE") has been tapped to direct the highly anticipated "WORLD WAR Z" adaptation for Paramount Pictures. Based on the Max Brooks bestselling novel about a worldwide infestation of flesh-eating zombies. "Changeling" scribe J. Michael Straczynski is writing the screenplay, and Brad Pitt's Plan B is producing. Brooks -- the son of Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft -- wrote a detailed tale in which a researcher for the U.N. Postwar Commission interviews survivors from countries all over the world, 10 years after the crisis, to gather a first-person post-mortem on a war that obliterated every country on the map.