Paramount has set "Quantum of Solace" director Marc Forster to helm "
World War Z," based on the Max Brooks bestselling novel about a worldwide infestation of flesh-eating zombies.
Brooks -- the son of Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft -- 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.