I had no idea what a big deal the New York Comic-Con would be. One of the major announcements to come out of the convention is the confimation that J. Michael Straczynski, creator of Babylon 5, is currently working up the script for Max Brooks’ World War Z. IGN relates some of what he had to say about the project.

“It’s very political, very smart, very cagey, but there’s no main character. So you have to create who the interviewer is and give him some background and bring him from place to place to place to place. And they said, ‘Feel free to get as political as you want, as incisive as you want, to play with it. You could look at this as a Katrina kind of catastrophe.’ But I’m being very faithful to the book, letter by letter when I can, and I’m on about page 70 right now and I’m really happy with it.”

Straczynski also mentions the possibility that since the film is being produced under Brad Pitt’s company that the actor may appear in the movie. I’m not that familiar with Straczynski’s work, but as I understand it he takes a very hard line on realism within genre, something a project like this could use. Here’s hoping he’s the right choice.

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