EXCLUSIVE: David Morse has been cast in Paramount’s zombie-infestation pic World War Z, the Marc Forster-directed adaptation of the Max Brooks novel that has been set for a December 21, 2012 release. Morse, who stars on HBO’s Treme and next appears on movie screens in Disney’s The Odd Life Of Timothy Green, will play a prisoner living in an abandoned jail in World War Z, which stars Brad Pitt, Mireille Enos and James Badge Dale. The two-time Emmy nominee is repped by UTA and Kipperman Management.


Are these morons still making a PG-13 World War Z?
Yes.
They need to go back to Straczynski’s script.
So… they’re ripping off plot points from THE WALKING DEAD?
You know the TV series is going to get to the jail eventually… when it does, will it be accused of ripping off World War Z?
Or is Morse playing Redeker?
From the description, it doesn’t sound like Redeker (his jail was hardly abandoned). Then again, who knows?
I get the feeling that all the film-makers are going to keep from the book is the title.
Morse rules. Hack was underrated. Good to see all the undead alive & biting. Now we need a good network show that shakes up the tired genre… Enough of the “run & shoot ‘em in the head” crap.
The all-time King of the That Guys. He’s great – for some reason never became famous.
Actually The Wlking Dead ripped it off from Stephen King’s The Stand.
How do u figure? The Stand is disease (more like BBC’s Survivors if anything) NOT flesh eating zombies!
WWZ is shaping up to be one the biggest disappointments of next year
In WWZ, the zombies have a 30 second infection speed and they RUN ala 28 Days Later…
Plus they have Brad Pitt appearing in key scenes…
The only thing they are keeping is the title and a few set pieces… climaxing in Battle of Yonkers… which in the book is an “end of act 1″ event…
Someone should also ask what happened to Colin Wilson on the film?
Reddeker was never in jail. He’s in a mental institution. After that apartheid guy hugs him he snaps and goes crazy. Talks about himself as if he was someone who knew him.
This movie will be the SUX!!!!!!!!!!!!