What may well be the post-Romero magnum opus of Zombie Hate on Screen, ‘World War Z’, continues to chug ahead with various bits of casting and backstage news trickling out. Here’s a double dose of downer for you:

According to Variety The Grey’s James Badge Dale (pictured right) is going back into battle, albeit against an already-dead enemy. Dale is in negotiations to join Brad Pitt in Paramount’s World War Z, set 10 years after a global zombie epidemic. If signed, Dale will play an American soldier who tries to alert authorities that the zombie threat is real. Paramount had no comment on the casting.

Oh yes, the poor Cassandra, unable to convince his sadly ineffectual government to persecute the Zombies hard enough!

About what we’d expect from a movie based on Max Brooks. But wait, there’s more I hadn’t heard before:

Brad Pitt is playing a U.N. worker gathering stories of the great zombie war, and his Plan B shingle is producing. Mireille Enos (“Big Love”, “The Killing”) will play his wife, a mother of two girls, and Anthony Mackie co-stars. J. Michael Straczynski and Matt Carnahan wrote the script.

J. Michael Straczynski?! Babylon 5′s J. Michael Straczynski?

Uggh. It’s so sad to see someone you admire stoop as low as this.

So very sad indeed. For shame, Straczynski, for shame.

Tags: Max Brooks is a Jerk, Movies

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