According to Fangoria, Brooks himself has revealed that the draft by J. Michael Straczynski (writer of CHANGELING and creator of “Babylon 5”) is now being rewritten by A-list scribe Matthew Michael Carnahan (bro of Smokin’ Joe), who recently penned THE KINGDOM and STATE OF PLAY and will now handle mankind’s full-blown chaotic conflict against deadly meat.
Straczynski’s script was reportedly solid, so why the change? “They say it’s a positive move because they’re very excited,” Brooks joked, “But the truth is, it’s also positive because they just paid him a buttload of money, and [with] the money they paid him, the money they paid Straczynski and they money they’ve paid me, they’ve really dug themselves a deep hole, so they better make this thing!”
The story is set in the aftermath of a war fought between humanity and a legion of flesh-eating zombies, and is told anthology-style through a series of “interviews” with survivors. The film will presumably create a single main character as a conduit for viewers to experience the horrors. Brad Pitt’s company Plan B is producing, and Marc Forster (QUANTUM OF SOLACE) is attached to direct the cinematic corpses.