WORLD WAR Z (Release Date)

• WORLD WAR Z

Paramount's big screen version of Max Brooks' World War Z has its release date.

According to Deadline, the Marc Forster-directed adaptation starring Brad Pitt will hit theaters December 21, 2012.

Brad Pitt on Set of World War Z

The films plot, “A researcher for the U.N. Postwar Commission interviews survivors of the flesh-eating zombie attack from all over the world in order to put together a post-mortem on a war that destroyed every country around the globe.”

That will pit (really, no pun intended) WWZ against The Lone Ranger, starring Armie Hammer and Johnny Depp.