The genre film has made $536 million in worldwide grosses, not to mention some of the better reviews of the Summer blockbuster season. When it opened it had the highest opening for an original live-action tentpole since "Avatar" not to mention the biggest opening weekend ever of star Brad Pitt's career. The flick will end up being a solid earner for the studio. If the budget can be kept in check, the notion of doing another one makes perfect sense.
The premise is based on the Max Brooks' created comic book Set a decade after a virus has turned much of the planet's population into zombies, the story follows a journalist interviewing subjects from around the world about their experiences during the 'zombie war'. The book fuses elements of political satire, war and survival horror as it explores how various nations, governments and individuals respond to the crisis.
The book is actually an anthology, each chapter is essentially an interview of a different subject in a different part of the world, allowing each chapter to focus on how people and nations reacted to the crisis before, during and after.
Making the rounds at the Toronto International Film Festival this week, Pitt was asked by Variety about the possibility of doing a follow up:
"We're certainly talking about it, yes. We have so many ideas on the table from the time we spent developing this thing and figuring out how the zombie worlds work… we gotta get the script right first to determine if we go further."
Pitt also says it's the studio suits that are putting pressure on him to make another one, and developing a story won't be a problem since much of Brooks' book wasn't used in the first one and so "we have so many ideas and so much information – we think we have a lot of stuff to mine from."
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