World War Z Official Trailer is out now. We’ve heard that their were a lot of problems on the set of World War Z and it’s pretty clear they aren’t doing this like the book at all, but when you see an army of the dead scaling a wall like ants that’s pretty damned cool. They’ve already got my money.
I’m a huge fan of the book, I even have a signed copy. Currently I am crushingly dissapointed. They will have to show me that some of the book survived the Hollywood rewrite machine before they can peek my interest
I’m with Lone Howler for the hope some of the book survived part… for the rest apocalypse maddness I’m all for. Being a Dad of 2 young girls (hell being a Dad) trying to get your family out of a high density population area during that… I’m all for that kind of movie.
LH we may have to just watch the movie and pretend the idea didn’t come from the book.
I’m a huge fan of the book as well. No, this isn’t the book, but I can see how it relates directly. The book looked at the aftermath of the war as humanity tried to rebuild and cope with the war. This looks to be more focused on the first days of the war when the virus started to spread. I think they can both exist in the same world, just as long as they remain focused on the separate time points, and also the movie is sure to focus on the human factor as much as the zombie factor. Would of been good I think, if they had named the movie something along the lines of “World War Z: The Beginning” or something to highlight it was along the same
They got a bad scriptwriter
I’m still holding out hope this wont suck. To be honest I always thought World War Z was unfilmable if you want to keep it faithful to the book.
There’s no main character, Narrator doesn’t really count.
It’s told in a series of vignettes.
It’s also told after the war occurs which immediately throws away a lot of tension.
I love the book, I just can’t see it as a movie.
Well, the had o take some liberties with it, the just went to far.
I don’t think it would be a problem the the book was a episodical is it is, that did not stop other movies from being good. Heck, you could even make it with the narator as red line and show the individual stories when the get told.
That however…
To be honest, from the trailer I think they should scrap the title and rename it “Left 4 Dead – The movie”. I’m not sarcastic or anything, it just seems fitting.
Max Brooks said he hoped this movie would be “the Lord of the Ring of zombie movies”. A close adaptation could have done that, maybe. This is just a generic zombie movie. What a waste.
I agree this book would have been a much better mini series or a flow blown series with different interviews being an episode
I know when I was at a lecture by max brooks the man washed his hands of it saying he had NOTHING to do with the movie so if it sucks not his fault. He didnt sound terribly impressed
True. In the early stages they had some communication with Brooks, hence theqoute from above.
I kinda “pitty” him a little. He wrote a novel that took an overdone genre and put it into another medium with a fresh drive and now this.
Too bad.
I’m going to go into the theater trying real hard to forget the title of the movie because I think that’s the only thing it’s going to have in common with the book.
On the plus side, Brad Pitt is still very dreamy….. (Don’t judge me)