Shock Till You Drop is reporting that Screen Daily is reporting (I’m not linking to their story because it requires you to register, screw that) that the long awaited World War Z adaptation is gearing up to shoot all over the world starting in June. The film will be directed by Marc Forster, will star Brad Pitt and has a script penned by J. Michael Straczynski and Matthew Michael Carnahan. Production will reportedly begin in Malta.
If you are a horror fan, you should be excited about this. Marc Forster (I like Quantum of Solace) is good. Brad Pitt is good. The source material, Max Brook’s novel, is good. The screenwriters are good. Of course the internet will respond with the usual “Zombies are played out!” sentiment, then turn around and gobble up the endless superhero content Hollywood churns out. News flash: Pretty much everything is “played out”. What matters is that you have a good story and that you tell it well. This project has the potential for greatness. Give it a chance.
I must be the only person that didn’t like World War Z as a book. And I have no clue how they will make it a movie. Those involved interest me a great deal, but WWZ is the only book I have never finished in my life.
Hey, just think – when they finish the movie, you can re-read it as a novelization. Bet you’ll fucking finish it then.
I like the comment above mine.
Nah, never read novelizations. Thanks for assuming my reading ability must be too low to enjoy the original material though. Maybe you should ask why I didn’t like it, instead of starting with an attack? Man, fuck me I guess.
I like it very much.
Unless this delves into the entire Chinese revolution plot line, and features the destruction of communist china, I will declare that this movie pulled it’s punches. Oh, and it also better have Bill Maher as himself or else what’s the point?
Is it a zombified Bill Maher? I hate that asshole.
I’m sure he hates you as well.
Can’t believe Pitt’s doing this. It should be awesome, but I really have no idea how they’ll structure this bad boy. How do you turn 10 or so completely isolated stories with different characters, situations, and locations into a single feature film? Sounds impossible — consider my interest piqued