'World War Z': Mireille Enos In Talks To Play Brad Pitt's Wife

Three years, a desperate search for $125 million and a few rewrites later, Brad Pitt may just have his newest leading lady.

Deadline reports that Mireille Enos, featured in HBO's "Big Love" and star of AMC's new hit, "The Killing," is in talks to play Pitt's wife in the long-brewing big screen adaptation of the zombie war book, "World War Z."

In the film, Pitt will play a journalist documenting the aftermath of a bloody zombie-human war that took place a decade earlier. It's a bit of a departure from Max Brooks' hit book, which Pitt optioned three years ago; in the novel, the main character is an investigator for the UN.

The project hit the skids for a while given its high price tag and Paramount's reluctance to foot the entire bill. With new financiers brought aboard, though, it seems all systems are a go for Pitt and Enos to explore what is left of the human world.

For more on Enos' casting, click over to Deadline.

Comments

[Yoda103]

02:52 AM on 04/27/2011

She looks like a zombie to me.

[MayaPapaya]

11:18 PM on 04/26/2011

I never finished this book...but Mireille was AMAZING on Big Love.

[Mattie]

07:50 AM on 04/27/2011

The Killings is an excellent show.

[KJLSanDiego]

10:02 PM on 04/26/2011

Meh.
She's all right I guess.

[Alex Doten]

09:04 PM on 04/26/2011

What, is Brad Pitt's character supposed to be blind? This woman is hideous and depressing (and I love red heads), and, while I like The Killing, she's the worst part of it. I wo't see this movie if she's in it. Call me shallow, but I hate when movies pick ugly women to be the stars or to be involved with good looking me. Minnie Driver ruined Good Will Hunting and this woman will ruin this.

[LivelyLexie]

08:18 PM on 04/26/2011

Vampires, then zombies. Which lame creature is next?

[sachazg]

06:36 PM on 04/26/2011

I hope he leaves Angie for her.

[Boyc Ottintouch]

01:58 AM on 04/27/2011

I hope he stays with Angie forever and Aniston grows old alone and bitter, much like yourself.

[MsLilyBe]

04:56 PM on 04/26/2011

Oh I hope they give this movie the documentary feel it deserves!! *crosses fingers*

It's was such a vivid book that I found myself thinking I'd missed something in my history class!

L

[vaf112675]

04:25 PM on 04/26/2011

Wow.

Another zombie movie.

I'm completely psyched.

hoo frickin ra

[SeanMartin]

03:17 PM on 04/26/2011

Love him, love her... but the movie itself sounds like Netflix rental material and not much more.

[skybar]

02:58 PM on 04/26/2011

She's excellent in "The Killing."

[ECB]

09:03 PM on 04/26/2011

I didn't recognize her at first.

[theborg]

02:10 PM on 04/26/2011

Title 'The Meeting'. Take 100...
BIG STUDIO PRODUCER: 'Alright, give it too me!'
BRAD'S AGENT: 'It's zombies vs the corporate media. Everybody gets eaten!'
BIG STUDIO PRODUCER: 'Everybody?!'
BRAD'S AGENT: "Everybody!"
BIG STUDIO PRODUCER: 'Does it have a message?!"
BRAD'S AGENT: "None at all!"
BIG STUDIO PRODUCER: "Greenlight!!"

[wonderYrednow]

05:15 PM on 04/26/2011

Corrective hives.

[haltmadness]

01:52 PM on 04/26/2011

My nanny took my kids to church on Easter. My 8 year old wants to know why people are praying to a zombie.

[wonderYrednow]

05:16 PM on 04/26/2011

Just say it's Gumby, or Pokey, in drag?

[KJLSanDiego]

10:01 PM on 04/26/2011

Your kid is awesome!

[ex-eye-in-the-sky]

01:18 PM on 04/26/2011

I haven't read the book (yet). But by the looks of it...it reminds me of one of my favorite 360 games...Fallout 3. As well as Fallout Vegas. And I've been hooked on them for awhile.

[Go Kart Mozart]

05:28 PM on 04/26/2011

I have read the book (by Max Brooks, Mel's son). And most of the events in the book are more like "Left 4 Dead" and "Left 4 Dead 2." Huge zombie swarms and full-scale carnage. It will be awesome.

[DrucillaBee]

01:00 PM on 04/26/2011

I don't care who she is really, I'm too busy looking at Brad's picture. He gets better and better with age plus he's quite charitable. I love what he done for the people of New Orleans.

[ex-eye-in-the-sky]

01:17 PM on 04/26/2011

I sure agree with what you said about him helping out the folks in New Orleans. He's always seemed to me like quite a guy. It renews my faith in people when I see somebody who is successful and well off, who use their resources to help people. And not be a Grinch with their money when it comes it those less fortunate.

[DrucillaBee]

01:22 PM on 04/26/2011

Agreed. He seems like a genuinely humble man by all appearances.

[onionboy]

12:53 PM on 04/26/2011

FINALLY...a zombie apocalypse movie.

Oh wait...I mean ANOTHER zombie apocalypse movie.

[wonderYrednow]

05:17 PM on 04/26/2011

Short line, no waiting.