
Gerry radios Thierry, who diverts the flight to a WHO lab in Cardiff. The pair are able to make it out alive on a commercial airliner. Soon after, one of Gerry's escorts, identifying herself only as "Segen" is bitten in the hand Gerry quickly amputates her hand to prevent infection. On the way, Gerry notices zombies ignoring an old man and an emaciated boy. Warmbrunn orders Israeli soldiers to escort Gerry back to his plane. While Warmbrunn escorts Gerry around the city, the loud celebratory singing from the refugees prompts the zombies to scale the wall and overrun the city. Months earlier, the Mossad had intercepted Indian military transmissions describing troops fighting zombies, prompting them to erect huge walls around Jerusalem. In Jerusalem, Gerry meets Mossad chief Jurgen Warmbrunn. A former CIA operative imprisoned at the base sends Gerry to Jerusalem, where the Mossad set up a safe zone before the outbreak was officially acknowledged. Surviving American soldiers at the camp rescue the team and Gerry learns the infection was introduced to the base by its doctor. Fassbach turns to enter the aircraft, slips and accidentally shoots himself and dies. Gerry, Fassbach, and a small SEAL escort fly to Camp Humphreys, a military base in South Korea, but zombies attack.

Gerry is told he and his family will be evicted unless he helps Fassbach find the outbreak source. Andrew Fassbach, a young virologist, insists that the plague is a virus and that the development of a vaccine depends on finding the origin. Navy vessel in the Atlantic Ocean where scientists and military personnel are analyzing the worldwide outbreaks. UN Deputy Secretary-General Thierry Umutoni, an old friend of Gerry, sends a helicopter that extracts the Lanes to a U.S. As chaos spreads, the Lanes escape to Newark, New Jersey and take refuge in an apartment with a couple and their young son Tommy, though they are forced to escape with Tommy when a horde of zombies attack the apartment and his parents are infected. įormer UN agent Gerry Lane, his wife Karin, and their two young daughters, Rachel and Connie, are in heavy Philadelphia traffic when the city is overrun by zombies. A sequel was announced shortly after the film's release, but in February 2019 it was cancelled, reportedly due to budget issues. Regardless, the film was a commercial success, grossing over $540 million against a production budget of $190 million, becoming the highest-grossing zombie film of all time. The film received positive reviews for Brad Pitt's performance and as a realistic revival of the zombie genre, but garnered criticism for the anti-climax, outdated CGI, and lack of faithfulness to the source material. The film premiered in New York, and Los Angeles on June 14, 2013, and released everywhere on June 21, 2013, in the United States, in 2D and RealD 3D. World War Z premiered in London on June 3, 2013, and was chosen to open the 35th Moscow International Film Festival. The reshoots took place between September and October 2012, ballooning the budget to a reported $190 million, although some publications have listed it as high as $269 million. Damon Lindelof was hired to rewrite the third act, but did not have time to finish the script, and Drew Goddard was hired to rewrite it. In June 2012, the film's release date was pushed back, and the crew returned to Budapest for seven weeks of additional shooting. Originally set for a December 2012 release, the production suffered some setbacks. Filming began in July 2011 in Malta, on an estimated $125 million budget, before moving to Glasgow in August 2011 and Budapest in October 2011. In 2009, Carnahan was hired to rewrite the script.

Pitt's Plan B Entertainment secured the film rights in 2007 Straczynski was approached to write and Forster was approached to direct. The ensemble 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 Wendy Williams. 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. Michael Straczynski, based on the title of the 2006 novel of the same name by Max Brooks. 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.
