I loved both books and considering it's easier to make a film about zombies (lots of undead, lots of dying people, lots of blood) then most other book-to-movie franchise's I have high hopes.
Poll: World War Z - The Movie
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If they do a five plus minute long battle of Yonkers in a truely epic scale, I will be happy, no matter how much they destroy the original story.
I loved WWZ, but I don't think you could make one movie about it on the average movie budgets that get handed out now a days...now if they made it into two movies, I could be happy.
At any rate, I'll go see it at the very least the opening week.
I loved WWZ, but I don't think you could make one movie about it on the average movie budgets that get handed out now a days...now if they made it into two movies, I could be happy.
At any rate, I'll go see it at the very least the opening week.
I could honestly see epic win, epic fail and anything in between. For it to be an epic win, I think a lot of fans of the book will have to be disappointed. They might have to put the focus on the United States side of the war to give it a coherent story with a few of the other chapters sprinkled in at the beginning to get the ball rolling and a few during for perspective. I think the best thing to do is to go into it with no expectations at all.
Unfortunately, I think it'll end up as a tolerable but not outstanding action./zombie movie with a confusing mash-up of characters. The book was able to smoothly transition between people, places and events, and I just don;t think a movie will be able to do that. Much of the social commentary will be lost as well, I fear, in afvor of more sexy violence.
Yeah... thats not really a good sign. Part of the appeal of the book was its wide and varied scope and characters. If they tie it to 1 guy, they'll have to cut alot of the good stuff - after all, they can't have an American-Iranian-Japanese-British-French-Russian-Chinese teenage-middleaged-old guy as the main, heh.Arcade_Fire said:
Doug has a point. Seeing that the zombie plague is world-wide, having lots of characters from different parts of the world and speaking different languages, not just in Deeferent Aksents.
Now, if they focused on the Author Avatar instead of the talking heads delivering the story, they could make a very convincing movie. It could be sequential, depicting the Not-Max-Brooks-At-All person on his journey through postwar Earth, speaking to different people, recording his story. Mockumentary, linear action movie (the persons talking could be replaced by a depiction of the events occuring, probably with narration by the person "speaking"), and pseudo-dystopian economy. Maybe the writer could even provide with handy exposition.
Now, if they focused on the Author Avatar instead of the talking heads delivering the story, they could make a very convincing movie. It could be sequential, depicting the Not-Max-Brooks-At-All person on his journey through postwar Earth, speaking to different people, recording his story. Mockumentary, linear action movie (the persons talking could be replaced by a depiction of the events occuring, probably with narration by the person "speaking"), and pseudo-dystopian economy. Maybe the writer could even provide with handy exposition.
Ouch.Arcade_Fire said:
That might not work since the narrator is a very nonexistent non developed character in the book. I would have rather preferred a short story vignette method...
The way it is now, there's going to be a lot of slow scenes of a reporter sitting in helicopters.
I assume the way it would work is you would see him between interviews, and the person being interviewed voices over all the action via flashback or something.BallPtPenTheif said:
Whatever they do I hope to god it works. WWZ is easily one of my favorite all time books - I'd hate to see it go down Narnia style or something... **shudder**
More than likely. It will suck sitting through those slow book ends just because the screenwriter wanted to stay "faithful" to the book. Personally, the book does such a great job describing a global campaign that it would almost be more interesting to see it from the perspective of the planners while cutting to the vignettes.Arcade_Fire said:
