Just on the heels of Quantum of Solace’s wide release director Marc Forster is working with Paramount to direct World War Z, based on the Max Brooks (son of Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft) bestselling novel on a worldwide infestation of flesh-eating zombies.

Changelingscribe J. Michael Straczynski is writing the screenplay.

According to Variety, Brooks wrote a detailed tale in which a researcher for the U.N. Postwar Commission interviews survivors from countries all over the world, 10 years after the crisis, to gather a first-person post-mortem on a war that obliterated every country on the map.