Looks like Paramount Pictures want another writer's touch for their upcoming zombie epic World War Z, based on the best-selling Max Brooks novel. Fangoria is reporting, via an interview with the author, that the studio has hired screenwriter Matthew Michael Carnahan (The Kingdom, State of Play) to replace the scripting duties previously held by J.Michael Straczynski.
Max seems confident in the recent screenwriter switch saying, "He’s one of Hollywood’s hot A-list writers, so if they went after him and paid him a mountain of gold, it definitely shows their confidence in this project."
Director Marc Forster is set to helm the zombie adaptation but we're still early in the development process for casting announcements. No release date has been set.
Plot Concept: Based on the Max Brooks best-selling novel about a worldwide infestation of flesh-eating zombies, 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.