‘The Impossible’ Director J.A. Bayona To Helm ‘World War Z’ Sequel

Briefly: The World War Z sequel just got a lot more interesting.

The Orphanage and The Impossible (both fantastic, fantastic films) director J.A Bayona has just signed on to helm Paramount’s yet untitled World War Z sequel. No information about the sequel has been announced at this point, as the film is still in search of a writer, but we do know that Brad Pitt will again produce the film (no word on whether or not he’ll also act in it).

World War Z was a major surprise for me when it released earlier this year. I was a big fan of the (very, very different) novel, and thought that the film looked like absolute crap right from the very first trailer (plot wise, and that wave of zombies looked like something out of an early PS2 game, among other things). When I finally got around to seeing it however, I actually really enjoyed it (Not as an adaptation, but simply as a film… its only similarities to the book were the title and character’s name). In any case, the HonestTrailer for the film was pretty spot on:

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Source: THR