World War Z is a 2013 American action horror film directed by Marc Forster, with a screenplay by Matthew Michael Carnahan, Drew Goddard and Damon Lindelof, from a story by Carnahan and J. Michael Straczynski, based on the 2006 novel of the same name. by Max Brooks. The film stars Brad Pitt as Gerry Lane, a former United Nations investigator who travels the world gathering clues to find a way to stop a zombie pandemic.

The supporting cast includes Mireille Enos, Daniella Kertesz, James Badge Dale, Matthew Fox, Ludi Boeken, Fana Mokoena, David Morse, Peter Capaldi, Pierfrancesco Favino, Ruth Negga and David Andrews. Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment picked up the film rights in 2007; Straczynski was approached to write and Forster to direct. In 2009, Carnahan was hired to rewrite the script.