News coming out of Comic-con is that Brad Pitt will star in World War Z, an adaptation of Max Brooks' cult horror novel World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War. Brooks confirmed the news to MTV live. Though Pitt had been rumoured to play the lead, it hadn't been confirmed until now.

Director Marc Forester (Quantum of Solace) is set to direct based on a script by J. Michael Straczynski (Babylon 5 creator and writer of many things awesome) and little known Matthew Michael Carnahan.