World War Z opened this weekend and earned a surprisingly impressive $112.2 million at the worldwide box office. The film, based loosely off Max Brooks’s novel, was originally predicted to be one of the year’s worst movies, but ended up drawing huge numbers.
Thanks to the film’s box office success, Brad Pitt’s production company, Plan B Entertainment, is in the works to write a sequel to the film. Pitt originally envisioned World War Z to be the first part of a trilogy that would be released if box office demand was high. It seems that is the case.
In World War Z Brad Pitt plays Gerry Lane, a retired United Nations employee who must leave his family to travel the world in order to find a way to stop the zombie outbreak. Mirelle Enos, who plays Pitt’s wife Karin in the film, said she has already signed on for two more WWZ films.
Last week at the world premiere of World War Z in Moscow, Pitt hinted at the possibility of a sequel. “There is enough [material] to mine from the book,” Pitt said. “We could barely get a fraction of the book in [this movie]. So we’ll see. We’ll see.”
The film drew a fairly even ratio of males (51 percent) and females (49), while 33 percent of those buying tickets were under the age of 25, and 67 percent were over, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Due to the film’s ability to draw both male and female crowds of all ages, World War Z can lay claim to having “the best opening for an original live-action tentpole since [2009’s] ‘Avatar.'”
World War Z is now playing in theaters nationwide.
