equivalent to a Lieutenant) James Badge Dale as Captain Speke, a U.S. Army Ranger stationed at Camp Humphreys in South Korea Ludi Boeken as Jurgen Warmbrunn, a high-ranking official in the Mossad Matthew Fox as Parajumper, who is sent to extract the Lane family from Newark and bring them to the U.N. vessel Fana Mokoena as Thierry Umutoni, the Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, who used to be Gerry's boss and enlists Gerry to investigate the pandemic David Morse as Ex-CIA officer, who was imprisoned in South Korea for assisting North Korea's fight against the zombies Elyes Gabel as Andrew Fassbach, a young Harvard virologist who goes to South Korea with Gerry Peter Capaldi as W.H.O. Doctor (in Wales) Pierfrancesco Favino as W.H.O. Doctor (in Wales) Ruth Negga as W.H.O. Doctor (in Wales) Moritz Bleibtreu as W.H.O. Doctor (in Wales) Sterling Jerins as Constance "Connie" Lane, Gerry and Karin's youngest daughter and Rachel's younger sister Abigail Hargrove as Rachel Lane, Gerry and Karin's oldest daughter and Connie's older sister Fabrizio Zacharee Guido as Tomas, an orphaned Hispanic boy who is taken in by the Lane family after his parents were both infected David Andrews as Naval Commander Mullenaro, who is in charge of the U.N. vessel to which the Lane family is brought John Gordon Sinclair as a Navy SEAL Chief, who goes to South Korea with Gerry Grégory Fitoussi as C130 Pilot, who flies Gerry from South Korea to Israel Michiel Huisman as Ellis, a U.S. Army Ranger in Speke's unit Nikola Đuričko as Captain of "Belarus Airlines" Production Development After a bidding war with Leonardo DiCaprio's production company Appian Way, Brad Pitt's Plan B Entertainment secured the screen rights to Max Brooks' novel in 2007. The first screenplay was written by Babylon 5 and Rising Stars creator J. Michael Straczynski, who identified the challenge in adapting the work as "creating a main character out of a book that reads as a UN report on the zombie wars." Marc Forster signed on to direct, and described the film as reminiscent of 1970s conspiracy thrillers like All the President's Men. Straczynski identified 2002 spy film The Bourne Identity as an appropriate comparison, and noted that the film would have a large international scope that maintained the political emphasis. When asked about his involvement with the film, author Max Brooks stated he had "zero control", but favored a role for