Marc Forster raised plenty of eyebrows when he accepted the 007 gig after making a career of directing more serious dramas like The Kite Runner and Monster's Ball. Still more eyebrows are raising now as Forster has turned down the next Bond film to direct World War Z, the film adaptation of Max Brooks's best-selling novel that chronicles interviews of survivors 10 years after a zombie apocalypse.
The film will be Forster's first attempt at the genre. However, he told Variety, "The genre [has] always fascinated me, and when they pitched it to me, it reminded me of the paranoid conspiracy films of the '70s like All the President's Men." What about the zombie films of the 1970's, we wonder?