Brad Pitt stars as an ex-United Nations employee racing around the globe in a bid to halt a worldwide zombie pandemic in Marc Forster's sprawling adaptation of Max Brooks' bestselling novel of the same name. Gerry Lane (Pitt) and his family were sitting in what appeared to be a typical traffic jam when helicopters began to circle ominously overhead. In the blink of an eye the streets were consumed by chaos. When Gerry learns that the catalyst for the turmoil is a highly contagious virus that transforms normal people into rampaging maniacs, and that legions of the infected are growing on all continents, he agrees to join his former colleagues in discovering the source of the rampant plague, and prevent it from bringing about the downfall of humanity. James Badge Dale, Matthew Fox, and David Morse co-star in this Paramount Films production. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi