World War Z 2 Confirmed

Paramount has officially confirmed a World War Z sequel is successful the works.

Confirmation comes from CinemaCon 2026, wherever Paramount executives besides announced Top Gun 3, Call of Duty, and caller installments of Star Trek, G.I. Joe, and Transformers. No different accusation was shared.

As of past year, Paramount was reported to person 3 franchises it planned to prioritize erstwhile it came to movies: Top Gun 3, Star Trek, and World War Z. The notation of World War Z came arsenic thing of a surprise, fixed it had been implicit a decennary since the Brad Pitt zombie movie came out. Now, though, we person confirmation it’s really moving forward.

In September, Tim Willits, improvement main astatine Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 workplace Saber Interactive, told IGN that helium believed the popularity of its World War Z video crippled helped person executives astatine Paramount to greenlight the sequel.

“30 cardinal radical person played that game. Isn't that crazy? 30 cardinal unsocial people,” Willits said. “They person not told maine this — I'll astir apt get successful trouble! — they person not told maine this, but possibly IGN enactment this connected Instagram, that there's speech astatine Paramount astir making different World War Z. Again, they person not told maine this, but I'm beauteous definite it’s due to the fact that of that game.

“They person not told maine this. I'm guessing!” Willits continued. “30 cardinal people. That's f***ing ridiculous! I saw that [the Paramount news] and I was like, ‘Oh that’s gotta beryllium us.’”

This isn't the archetypal effort to marque World War Z 2 a reality. World War Z was a commercialized occurrence upon its merchandise successful 2013, grossing implicit $540 cardinal worldwide astatine the container bureau (it was Pitt's highest-grossing movie earlier the precocious released F1 movie overtook it). Paramount confirmed plans to marque a sequel soon after, but past Marc Foster, manager of the archetypal film, announced that helium would not beryllium returning to helm the follow-up.

There was a further shake-up that resulted successful David Fincher signing connected arsenic J.A. Bayona's replacement successful the director's chair. However, the sequel ne'er pulled unneurotic arsenic Paramount decided to halt pre-production successful 2019, reportedly owed to fund issues and a deficiency of momentum, adjacent though accumulation was expected to statesman that year.

In 2023, Fincher likened his scrapped World War Z sequel to HBO's The Last of Us TV adaptation, saying helium was gladsome his movie didn't marque it beyond pre-production. Fincher told GQ that determination were immoderate notable similarities betwixt his Brad Pitt-fronted follow-up movie to World War Z and the HBO adaptation of Naughty Dog's The Last of Us, truthful overmuch truthful that helium was near feeling blessed his task ne'er came unneurotic due to the fact that helium felt the different had "more existent estate" to tackle the aforesaid topics.

"It was a small similar The Last of Us," Fincher said, teasing what helium had planned for the World War Z sequel. "I'm gladsome that we didn't bash what we were doing due to the fact that The Last of Us has a batch much existent property to research the aforesaid stuff. In our rubric sequence, we were going to usage the small parasite... they utilized it successful their rubric series and successful that fantastic opening with the Dick Cavett, David Frost-style speech show."

The question for fans of World War Z the movie is of people whether Pitt would instrumentality for a imaginable sequel, oregon if Paramount would spell for a marque caller cast.

Wesley is Director, News astatine IGN. Find him connected Twitter astatine @wyp100. You tin scope Wesley astatine [email protected] oregon confidentially astatine [email protected].