Brad Pitt On Max Brooks' World War Z book, ideas for the sequel

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Total Film's World War Z Premiere Report

Total Film spent Sunday afternoon on the black carpet (a fairly bleak take on the red carpet, complete with grinning white skull) at the World War Z world premiere.

When Brad eventually arrived, we spoke to him about what they've got planned for the World War Z sequel.

"There's so much in that book, we've got plenty of ideas. If this one works, we've certainly got plenty of ideas."

The book Pitt mentions is - obviously - Max Brooks' World War Z and, as it turns out, he's a bit of a fan of the author.

"He took a genre then turned it on his head, relating it to the kind of pandemics we're worried about today, like when SARS first came out.

He approached it on such an international scale, and looked at it in terms of who's best prepared when that happens, he presents the blue collar to be more prepared than white collar, that closed societies would be better off than open societies. Interesting, thought provoking ideas. "

What we've done with it five years later is (we've made a) massive summer fun apolcaptyo relentless (blockbuster)."

You can read our review of World War Z here , and below you can find a selection of Tweets from our live-coverage of the event.

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