World War Z Sequel A “Clean Slate”

It’s a good time for fans of the zombie genre, it’s a booming subculture and that means multiple movies, TV shows, games and if you’re into that kind of thing, comic books.  As expected a sequel to World War Z is also in the works.

For the sequel that is in order Indiewire‘s Thompson on Hollywood spoke to its writer, the stellar Steven Knight.

Knight, who penned Cronenberg’s great Eastern Promises and UK TV hit Peaky Blinders, spoke to the site about his feature directorial debut and one of last year’s best films, Locke. Looking ahead, he talks of writing the treatment for the upcoming World War Z follow-up and briefly says, “I thought, ‘why not? What fun.’ It’s not quite like the other, we’re starting with clean slate. When they’ve signed off we’re on.”

The first movie was “okay” if you ask me.  World War Z 2 is expected to get underway this October so expect a 2016 release.

Source: [IndieWire]