<Tr> <Th> Budget </Th> <Td> $190 million </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $540 million </Td> </Tr> <P> World War Z is a 2013 American action horror zombie disaster drama film directed by Marc Forster . The screenplay by Matthew Michael Carnahan, Drew Goddard, and Damon Lindelof is from a screen story by Carnahan and J. Michael Straczynski, based on the 2006 novel of the same name by Max Brooks . The film stars Brad Pitt as Gerry Lane, a former United Nations investigator who must travel the world to find a way to stop a zombie pandemic . </P> <P> Pitt's Plan B Entertainment secured the film rights in 2007, and Forster was approached to direct . In 2009, Carnahan was hired to rewrite the script . Filming began in July 2011 in Malta, on an estimated $125 million budget, before moving to Glasgow in August 2011 and Budapest in October 2011 . Originally set for a December 2012 release, the production suffered some setbacks . In June 2012, the film's release date was pushed back, and the crew returned to Budapest for seven weeks of additional shooting . Damon Lindelof was hired to rewrite the third act, but did not have time to finish the script, and Drew Goddard was hired to rewrite it . The reshoots took place between September and October 2012 . </P>

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