It also clocked Pitt's biggest opening weekend, devouring $66.4 million in its first three days. Yes, they would: World War Z exploded to a box office take of $202.4 million domestically and $540 million worldwide, which were pretty great numbers for a film with such a troubled production history. With that kind of momentum behind the project and director Marc Forster - a veteran of the James Bond franchise and critically acclaimed dramas like Monster's Ball - on board, the stage seemed set for World War Z to be a new kind of zombie movie: Serious-minded, and perhaps even award-worthy. Straczynski's script also ended up on the 2007 Black List, an annually compiled survey of the film industry's favorite as-yet-unproduced screenplays. Comparing it in scope to the Academy Award-nominated apocalyptic thriller Children of Men, McWeeny offered up the description of a script that kept the book's interview-based structure, painting a picture of a post-war world in which people are "starting to wonder if survival is a victory of any kind." A leaked version of the script made its way into the hands of the film nerds at Ain't It Cool News, where it was called Oscar-worthy by that site's Drew "Moriarty" McWeeny. Straczynski was a much-loved name in genre fan circles, and his work on World War Z touched a nerve with exactly that audience.
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