LOS ANGELES — It was the middle of 2006, and hardly anyone was particularly worried about the zombie apocalypse.
But Paramount Pictures saw it coming.
In June of that year, Paramount joined Brad Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment in acquiring film rights to the book “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War.” Its author, Max Brooks, building on his own successful “Zombie Survival Guide”
from three years earlier, had taken a novel approach, using fictitious
interviews to create the story of a world overrun by zombies.
Since then, it seems as if zombies actually had taken over — in smaller films like “Zombieland,” books like “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies” and, most notably, a television series, “The Walking Dead,” that has drawn extraordinary ratings over three seasons.
So when “World War Z” hits the big screen on June 21, it will be chasing a wave it anticipated almost a decade ago.
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