*Update: They were better off just touting the footage today. This could just as easily be a teaser poster for World War Zorro:
*Original article:
It’s been a plodding, meandering shuffle to get World War Z into theaters. An adaptation of Max Brooks’ 2006 follow-up to The Zombie Survival Guide, Z saw its March 2012 release date pushed back to June 21, 2013 for an onslaught of rewrites and reshoots. The J. Michael Straczynski script was later doctored by Damon Lindelof (a bad thing) who then handed the third act off to Drew Goddard for polishing (a great thing). Seven weeks of Budapest reshoots later and we finally have our look at the damned thing.
This is one of those awful Entertainment Tonight “trailer for the trailer” previews. As always, I recommend keeping it on mute in matters such as this. The whole zombies-as-killing-swarm is interesting, if perhaps a touch CG heavy. It’s tough to get a read here, so far the footage doesn’t look as bad as its troubled gestation would lead you to believe:
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A bit CGI heavy but alarming nonetheless. The image of a literal tidal wave of zombies kind of takes away the horror aspect for me and turns it into just an action scene where our hero has to run away from something like falling boulders. Still it was different take on the zombie apocalypse, and I’m all for variety and experimentation. That being said this is World War Z in name only.
It looks like My Name is Legend with more people. Fucking awful.
Hmmm… Part of me thinks a “tidal wave of human bodies” is it’s own flavor of horror, even if it’s not particularly zombie-ish.
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Anyway, didn’t they learn from I Am Legend? This looks like crap.
I loved the book but this is really disappointing.
This looks like utter crap. So you are trying to force down my throat that when you die and become a zombie, you all of a sudden have super running speed and amazing dexterity? The tidal wave of zombies that dont bite is beyond the realm of stupid and delving into new levels of deeper stupidity. They gutted this book and Brad made it a vanity piece about his character. What would of been great if they followed the book and a different director did each section to tell a different story. Look at that I made a better movie just now, at home, in boxers and eating eggs.
A tidal wave of break-dancing zombies…did not expect that.
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