History Film / WorldWarZ

** Unlike the ''28 Days Later'' version, the zombies are specifically described as being dead. Oddly, despite being clinically dead, the infected can still be killed by things that can drop an uninfected person, such as a few shots to the chest.

* InfantImmortality: Although we see mobs and mobs of zombies, they are all adults. [[spoiler:In the same vein, in addition to Gerry's daughters and Tommy, we see lots of children on the aircraft carrier and in refugee camps -- no actual ''infants'' as such.]]

A four player co-op shooter also called ''VideoGame/{{World War Z|2019}}'' developed by Saber Interactive in partnership with Paramount is due out 2019.

** Dr. Fassbach mentions Spanish Flu in his first scene. Spanish Flu, [[spoiler:a pandemic that targeted the healthy and more or less spared the infirm.]]

* ActionGirl: Segen, the IDF soldier who joins Gerry [[spoiler: after Jerusalem falls]].

* HighPressureBlood: When the young Israeli soldier gets his infected hand looped off by Gerry, the stomp spouts blood with high pressure.

* PlotArmor: In addition to evading numerous zombie hoards, Gerry and Segen survive a plane crash that kills everyone else on board.

** Unlike the ''28 Days Later'' version, the zombies are specifically described as being dead.

* TakingYouWithMe: An IDF soldier blows himself up with a hand grenade after being swarmed by zombies. Unfortunately, this makes the cage he and the zombies are on collapse onto fleeing civilians underneath.

* HarsherInHindsight: The Garbage Truck scene, It was filmed in George Square, Glasgow, only a year later in the same place, at christmas a man driving a Garbage truck blacked out and plowed through a crowd of people, killing several.

* NotUsingTheZWord: Initially played straight -- the zombies are referred to as "Rabies-infected" or, more bluntly, "things" when they are first introduced, [[JustifiedTrope likely because the people aren't sure what else to call them]]. When the word 'zombies' is first mentioned, the initial reaction is scoffs of disbelief. By the end though, a zombie is a zombie is a zombie, and they are referred to as such. Only exception being the soldiers in South Korea who call them Zeke. Other terms, used in the book, such as "G", or "Zack" were never used.

A four player co-op shooter also called ''VideoGame/{{World War Z|2018}}'' developed by Saber Interactive in partnership with Paramount is due out 2018.

A tie-in FirstPersonShooter for mobile called ''World War Z'' developed by Phosphor Games Studio and released on May 30, 2013 about a survivor called Doug trying to rescue his son.

A four player co-op shooter also called ''World War Z'' developed by Saber Interactive in partnership with Paramount is due out 2018.

* ArtisticLicensePhysics: The iconic - and marketing focused - zombie attack on the wall in Israel would fail on two accounts. Zombies are the general mass and durability as live people. The SquareCubeLaw means that trying to make an ant pyramid of them on a hundred feet high will result in most of it being smashed into goo and the upper tiers unable to support their own weight anyway. Second, zombies are killed by major brain trauma and still need bones to move. Jumping several stories to paving stones will leave few if any moving zombies for the Israelis to shoot.

** The trailer seems to imply there's [[NothingIsScarier some invisible force]] controlling the people.

[[Film/WorldWarZ2 A sequel]] has been planned, with Brad Pitt returning, Creator/DavidFincher was lines up to begin directing and running production beginning in early 2018, but he has since rescheduled due to commitments to ''[[Series/Mindhunter]]''.

[[Film/WorldWarZ2 A sequel]] has been planned, with Brad Pitt returning, Creator/DavidFincher was lines up to begin directing and running production beginning in early 2018, but he has since rescheduled due to commitments to ''Series/Mindhunter''.

[[Film/WorldWarZ2 A sequel]] has been planned, with Brad Pitt returning, Creator/DavidFincher possibly directing and production beginning in early 2018.