In June, we learned that the project is bound for reshoots that will bring star and producer Brad Pitt back to Bulgaria at an as-yet unspecified point this September or October.  At the time, it was not clear whether or not director Marc Forster would be overseeing the additional photography, and a subsequent report of a chaotic leaderless principal photography suggested that perhaps he would sit it out.  An update at Deadline today asserts that the director of Finding Neverland, The Kite Runner, and Quantum of Solace will indeed be directing when World War Z goes back into production mode.

For now, though, the movie is still in writing mode.  While Lindelof did indeed contribute an idea for the film's ending, but the writer was apparently too busy – presumably dodging nerd indignation over Prometheus – to really get into the writing.  In his stead, Paramount relied on Drew Goddard to actually hammer out the script pages for a new and improved third act. After sitting in limbo thanks to MGM's financial woes, Goddard's outstanding directorial debut Cabin in the Woods, which he co-wrote with Joss Whedon arrived in theaters earlier this year.  He served as a co-executive producer on Lost and a writer on Alias before going on to write Cloverfield.  More recently, he adapted Robopocalypse, to be directed by Steven Spielberg once he finishes up work on Lincoln.

Since Goddard is also an exceedingly busy writer, word is that Paramount may bring in yet another heavy-hitter to do one last pass on the ending of World War Z.  A candidate for that job is said to be Christopher McQuarrie, the Oscar-winner The Usual Suspects writer who is directing this year's Jack Reacher for the studio.  McQuarrie's likely to be busy too, though, since he's now in the Tom Cruise business, and is rewriting All You Need is Kill, Cruise's next project, which he'll film after finishing up work on Joseph Kosinski's Oblivion.

Max Brooks's novel is framed as a history of the zombie pandemic compiled years after the fact by a United Nations researcher, with a variety of different characters narrating their experiences with the undead.  The film version stars Pitt as a U.N. researcher, but instead of a historian, he's a man racing across the globe to find the source of disease.  Matthew Michael Carnahan wrote the shooting script, and prior to the delayed release date and reshoot news, word was that Paramount was hoping to spin the movie off into a trilogy.

Pitt stars, while Mireille Enos, James Badge Dale, Matthew Fox, and David Morse playing supporting roles.  You'll be able to see them all when World War Z hits theaters on June 21, 2013.