Marc Forster to Direct World War Z

[Isildur´s Heir]

Paramount Pictures has acquired screen rights to the Max Brooks novel "World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War." Brad Pitt's Plan B will produce.

Written by the author of the satire "The Zombie Survival Guide," Barry's follow-up sparked a bidding battle between Paramount and Pitt, with Warner Bros. and Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way on the other side of the table.

The book is a sober telling of the aftermath of a war fought against a legion of humans who were inflicted with a virus, died and were reanimated into flesh-eating zombies.

"World War Z" will be published in the fall by Crown.

It sonds cool.
Hope that Pitt stars in it, because to have Brad Pitt in this kind of movie, it just to diferent and to cool to let it pass.

 

[thealiasman2000]

Are these running zombies, or walking zombies?

Are these brain-eating zombies, or flesh-eating zombies?

Are these actually zombies, or just "infected"?

Can they be killed with a blow to the head?

 

[Matt]

It seems to me that the zombies do not matter and it is about the AFTERMATH of the zombie war.

 

[Ronny Shade]

This is why Brad Pitt is awesome. I keep forgetting.

 

[Matt]

This is why Brad Pitt is awesome. I keep forgetting.

Don't forget running around in the gorilla suit on Jackass.

 

[Ronny Shade]

I didn't know about that

 

[StrainedEyes]

Don't forget running around in the gorilla suit on Jackass.

Or getting kidnapped

 

[Darthphere]

Are these running zombies, or walking zombies?

Are these brain-eating zombies, or flesh-eating zombies?

Are these actually zombies, or just "infected"?

Can they be killed with a blow to the head?

Ive read the man's other book, which is mentioned in the article so

1.Walking
2.Theres really no difference.
3.He says in the book I read that zombies are not of supernatural origin but they come from a disease called Solanum or something like that.
4.Yes.

 

[Ox Elf]

It's a good book.

It scared me.

 

[Mr. Credible]

Ive read the man's other book, which is mentioned in the article so

1.Walking
2.Theres really no difference.
3.He says in the book I read that zombies are not of supernatural origin but they come from a disease called Solanum or something like that.
4.Yes.

i was just going to say that, but you beet me to it.

the zombie survival guide was an awesome book.

 

[Ox Elf]

I actually would love to see Leo DiCaprio fighting Zombies even more than I'd love to see Brad Pitt doing it.

They should co-star

 

[black_dust]

I liked the Survial guide

 

[Speedball]

yeah, to bad he's not IN the movie, he's just producing it

 

[Dr.Doom]

it says they dont know if he will be producing or starring.

 

[IamtheNeonBlack]

Yeah, just saw it on comingsoon.net. And is'nt this the one Peter Jackson was supposed to do?

 

[Savage]

Sounds good to me.

 

[Flexo]

i was just going to say that, but you beet me to it.

the zombie survival guide was an awesome book.

Yeah, it was. I even own a copy.

But I did not know there was a sequel... I must look into this further.

 

[zer00]

This is why Brad Pitt is awesome. I keep forgetting.

Underestimate the Blonde Dynamo? What in the bloody **** is wrong with you?

 

[Joker]

yeah, I have the survival guide too, which was great...this sounds good too

 

[thealiasman2000]

So, it seems we are dealing with George A. Romero type zombies.

Thus, I prsume that everyone that gets bitten by one of these zombies turns into a zombie himself.


By the way, Brad Pitt kicks ass! He could defintaley take up a zombie army by himself!


My next door neighbor is a BIG FAN of zombie movies. He bought both "Resident Evil" movies, "Shaun of the Dead", 2004 "Dawn of the Dead" AND "28 Days Later" on DVD.

But he has no money to go to the theater, So I take him to see all the new zombie movies that get released. So I guess he will love this news.

 

[Joker]

owning the 2004 Dawn of the Dead makes you either a hardcore Romero fan who buys anything even slightly related to his zombie movies, or a giant idiot who actually like that movie

 

[Flexo]

owning the 2004 Dawn of the Dead makes you either a hardcore Romero fan who buys anything even slightly related to his zombie movies, or a giant idiot who actually like that movie

I got if for $5, just to have a complete collection.

I still feel ripped off.

 

[Ronny Shade]

Underestimate the Blonde Dynamo? What in the bloody **** is wrong with you?

Are you back now? should I take the battle cry out of my sig?

 

[thealiasman2000]

1-My next door neighbor is only 12 years old. He doesn't even know who George A. Romero is, let alone that Zack Snyder's Dawn is a remake.

That's why I have to take him to see all the zombie movies: he can't do it by himself.


2-While Brad Pitt could kick any zombie's ass, Leonardo DiCaprio will SO get owned.

What is he gonna do? He played nothing but wusses in his entire career. He wouls SO get eaten.

 

[Hunter Rider]

http://uk.movies.ign.com/articles/767/767703p1.html

NYCC 07: Straczynski Scripting World War Z
B5 creator adapting zombie tome for Paramount.
by IGN Staff

US, February 24, 2007 - J. Michael Straczynski, the creator of the sci-fi series Babylon 5 who has also become a popular comic book scribe in recent years, announced yesterday that he is writing the screenplay adaptation of the zombie book World War Z for Paramount. The Max Brooks novel, which was optioned last summer by the studio for Brad Pitt's production company Plan B, is subtitled An Oral History of the Zombie War.

"You all know the novel World War Z?" asked Straczynski of his audience during a New York Comic-Con panel on Friday. "I'm adapting that for Paramount. For Brad Pitt potentially -- we'll see what happens. He might be the star in it. So things are going very well for a TV guy."

Straczynski acknowledges that the book needs to be modified in order to work as a movie, particularly since it is an anthology that features no main character or plot, but rather skips around through time via the recollections of the many survivors of a decade-long war against the living dead.

"What you have to do is… the book, if you haven't read it, is a wonderful, wonderful book in an interview format after the zombie wars," explains the scribe. "You see how we survived. It's very political, very smart, very cagey, but there's no main character. So you have to create who the interviewer is and give him some background and bring him from place to place to place to place. And they said, 'Feel free to get as political as you want, as incisive as you want, to play with it. You could look at this as a Katrina kind of catastrophe.' But I'm being very faithful to the book, letter by letter when I can, and I'm on about page 70 right now and I'm really happy with it. I'm really pleased with it actually, so if that goes well we might go into production on that one."