MUMBAI: Paramount Pictures will be releasing the Brad Pitt starrer World War Z on 21 December, 2012.

The movie is being directed by Marc Forster. The geo-political thriller from Paramount and Skydance Productions, in association with Hemisphere Media Capital and GK Films, is a Plan B Entertainment/Apparatus Productions production that is shooting in England following initial photography completed in Malta last month. The film will also shoot in Scotland and Hungary.

Produced by Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner and Colin Wilson, the screenplay is written by Matthew Michael Carnahan from Max Brooks’ best-selling novel World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War.

Starring Pitt, Mireille Enos, Daniella Kertesz in her feature film debut, James Badge Dale and Matthew Fox, the film’s executive producers are Forster, Brad Simpson, David Ellison, Paul Schwake, Dana Goldberg, Graham King and Tim Headington.