'World War Z' 2 updates: Steven Knight talks about doing the screenplay; the sequel film will be a lot different

By Staff Writer

Sep 02, 2015 11:12 AM EDT

Paramount's World War Z, a 2013 action thriller movie directed by Marc Foster, was a blockbuster box office that hit $540 million despite the rumor issues on extensive reshoots and reworking of the film's third act, according to a report in Den of Geek.

So much with the financial success of the project, the sequel for World War Z has buzzed up the news feeds recently following the revelation of the World War Z screenwriter, Steven Knight, that he is doing a script draft for the sequel.

Steven Knight told Collider on an interview that his official order when he took hold of the draft for the World War Z sequel was to "move this along."

"I was approached with the idea of, 'How do we move this along?' so who could resist?", Knight said. 

He also recalls what his most interesting experience in the first film was.

"I think the beauty of the first film was the way that it never paused for breath. It never spent a moment thinking, 'Hang on a minute, we'd better tell the audience what this is all about.' It stayed in the moment, it stayed with that person," he said.

Knight also emphasized during his interview that that he came with an "empty slate" when he started working the sequel of the film. So, this may mean that the sequel is different from what is in the source novel written by Max Brooks and from the first movie. It seems that the sequel will be a lot different this time.

In the first film, viewers from all over the world were fascinated by the turn of events resulting to the success of World War Z. On a report on Screenrant, the success of the movie project is also credited to the four writers namely Matthew Michael Carnahan, J. Michael Straczynski, Drew Goddard, and Damon Lindelof who in one way or another contributed enough.

Now, the sequel challenges the people behind the project to produce another earth-shaking zombie thriller adventure a lot different from any other zombie movies but, a breath-catching one.The sequel movie, World War Z 2, will be directed by Juan Antonio Bayona who is also the director of The Impossible and (still) role played by Brad Pitt.

Paramount announced that the World War Z 2 will hit the big screens on June 9th, 2017.

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