The screenplay was signed, sealed and delivered by Steven Knight in January. Now the sequel to 2013's World War Z has a release date{
Half a billion dollars at the box office meant that the first World War Z was not at all the disaster that many had predicted. Bayona (The Impossible) and Knight (Locke, Hummingbird, Eastern Promises), signed onto the project around this time last year, with Knight dropping the intriguing bit of intelligence that the sequel is "a clean slate".
With no plot details revealed so far, it's still unclear what that means. Is it possible that World War Z is set to become an anthology series, with each potential instalment a smaller piece of a bigger puzzle? Are we going to move our focus to different characters, leaving Brad Pitt to produce - via his Plan B shingle - but not appear in front of the camera? Or was Knight just talking about ignoring whatever had already been written and starting his own attack from scratch?
What's certain is that there's plenty of as-yet unused material from Max Brooks' novel for the film to draw on. The undead are moving more slowly this time though, since the hoped-for start date last autumn shuffled past with nothing happening. Since the clock is now officially ticking, however, we'd assume there'll be more action soon.