There's a moment early on in World War Z, Brad Pitt and director Marc Forster's big-budget, apocalyptic thriller, where Pitt's character is being briefed by his old United Nations boss on the state of affairs since a zombie outbreak has engulfed the world seemingly overnight.
"The president is dead," the UN bigwig intones to a dumbstruck Pitt. And in that instant, it becomes apparent that this is some next-level s#!t for a zombie movie.
See, the living dead genre was for decades an on-the-cheap, hide-in-the-farmhouse kind of thing. Movie stars didn't headline them, studios didn't bankroll them with franchise tentpole dreams, and the mainstream public hardly even knew about them. But like many of the geek elite's fixations from years past, zombies are now big business. Hell, my mother-in-law watches The Walking Dead! So of course Brad Pitt is starring in a zombie picture.
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