World War is a 2023 war drama action horror film upcoming film produced, written, and directed by Robert Zemeckis. The film was released by Universal Pictures on December 20, 2023. based on the title of the 2006 novel of the same name by Max Brooks (the son of well-known actors Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft). It stars Tom Hanks as Gerry Lane, a former United Nations investigator who travels the world seeking a solution for a sudden zombie apocalypse The ensemble supporting cast includes TBA
TBA secured the film rights to Brooks' novel in 2007, and Straczynski was approached to write and Forster was approached to direct. In 2009, Carnahan was hired to rewrite the script. With a planned December 2012 release and a projected budget of $125 million, filming began in July 2011 in Germany, before moving to Glasgow in August and Budapest in October. The production suffered some setbacks, and, in June 2012, the release date was pushed back, and the crew returned to Budapest for seven weeks of additional shooting. Damon Lindelof was hired to rewrite the third act, but did not have time to finish the script, and Drew Goddard was hired to finish the rewrite. The reshoots took place between September and October 2012, ballooning the budget to a reported $190 million, although some publications have listed it as high as $269 million.
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- Tom Hanks as Gerry Lane, a former United Nations investigator who agrees to investigate the zombie pandemic to protect his wife and children
- Isabelle Moner as Karin Lane, Gerry's wife and Rachel and Connie's mother
- Justice Smith as Parajumper, who is sent to extract the Lane family from Newark and bring them to the U.N. vessel
- Emily Blunt as Segen, a soldier in the Israel Defense Forces who accompanies Gerry after Jerusalem falls ("Segen" is an IDF rank equivalent to a Lieutenant)
- Jamie Blackey as Thierry Umutoni, the Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, who used to be Gerry's boss and enlists Gerry to investigate the pandemic
- Nick Robinson as Andrew Fassbach, a young Harvard virologist who goes to South Korea with Gerry
- Jonathan Majors as Ex-CIA officer, who was imprisoned in South Korea for assisting North Korea's fight against the zombies
- Michael Douglas as Captain Speke, a U.S. Army Ranger stationed at Camp Humphreys in South Korea
- Paul Rudd as Jurgen Warmbrunn, a high-ranking official in the Mossad
- Matt LeBlanc as Constance "Connie" Lane, Gerry and Karin's youngest daughter and Rachel's younger sister
- Hayley Atwell as Rachel Lane, Gerry and Karin's oldest daughter and Connie's older sister
- Henry Cavill as Tomas, an orphaned Hispanic boy who is taken in by the Lane family after his parents were both infected
- Chris Hemsworth as Naval Commander Mullenaro, who is in charge of the U.N. vessel to which the Lane family is brought
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt as a Navy SEAL Chief, who goes to South Korea with Gerry
- Mark Ruffalo as C130 Pilot, who flies Gerry from South Korea to Israel
- Chris Evans as Ellis, a U.S. Army Ranger in Speke's unit
- Bill Murray as Captain of "Belarus Airlines"
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| World War: Music from the Motion Picture | |
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| Soundtrack album by TBA | |
| Released | 2020-2023 |
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| Genre | Classical |
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| Label | Sony Classical |
| Producer | TBA |
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See also[]
- List of zombie novels
- Midway Studios – Newcastle, who worked on a cancelled video game adaptation of the book in 2008[2]
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