Marc Forster to Direct World War Z

[Kane52630]

trailer is premiering this Thurs. here's a preview.

http://www.etonline.com/movies/126557_Exclusive_Countdown_to_World_War_Z/index.html

Footage looks odd. really odd.

 

[Liam_H]

CGI on those zombies need to be polished up.

 

[ThePowerCosmic]

****... those things look ravenous. They attack in packs and move quickly.

 

[Bruce Malone]

Ugh i have a feeling this movie is going to lose everything that made the novel great. Also those zombies look more like the I am legend mutants.

Frankly they should look closer to the walking dead zombies. Also the zombies don't run in the book! (as zombies shouldn't in general), there are several instances where characters can escape for that very reason. They should have gone with a District 9 feel not an I Am Legend mega blockbuster.

 

[EML420]

I havent read the book but I love how just crazy those zombies are.

 

[Maximus One]

Woah. That looks crazy

 

[redhawk23]

While I have a disdain for fast zombies, espeically since Max Brook had such a focus on explaining and building on the classic slow zombies, the group movement in that footage was nuts.

 

[Figs]

I really love zombie films and I don't mind zombies that can run even though I grew up with slow moving zombies like a lot of other older people but this movie looks ridiculous, in a bad way. The mass amount of zombies and how they're moving together, they would be tripping over each other, it looks like a blob of limbs really.

 

[Project862006]

my only problem with fast zombies is 9 times out of 10 it is gonna make your lead hero into a super hero

 

[Piper Maru]

In some scenes the mass of zombies look like a tidal wave of the undead.

 

[redhawk23]

^ Which is consistent with Brooks' description of Mumbai.


I really wish they had kept the original script they had for this because I heard the mumbai scenes in particular were insane.

 

[Marvolo]

Whoa! That is a different take on the zombies. Looks like I Am Legend outbreak meets 28 Weeks Later rage virus. The tidal wave movement is crazy and disturbing. If i saw something like that coming at me i would **** my pants. Just the thought of being pursued by that unnerves me. Ohhhh i really hope this was worth the wait.

 

[dark_b]

so they are running as fast as they can and there are millions of them together?

 

[Liam_H]

It looks each one is being stepped over by the one behind them creating a wave.

 

[Project862006]

not overly anticipating this imo forster is a hit and miss director and more misses than hits

honestly outside of finding neverland and monsters ball his films are mediocre

 

[Marvolo]

It kind of looks like they may have a hive mind when in large groups. Like thousands of cells moving together to accomplish a single goal.

 

[dark_b]

i like the concept. the action could be unique.

 

[jacobed]

I love the fast zombie. I find absolutely no tension with the slow zombie and i usually find myself rolling my eyes because they can't get away from something moving slower than molasses

 

[Doctor Jones]

Well the point with slow zombies is not of their speed but their numbers. A horde of walkers all at once is pretty damn frightening.

No doubt there will be mass debate on these zombies. But I've always liked fast ones. I really like the idea of a tidal wave of them falling over eachother there are so many. Hopefully they have some weight to them and its not just all CG zombies. They're frightening when they are tangible. But its all in th execution. Hopefully they don't feel weightless.

 

[Hunter Rider]

The footage reminded me of I Am Legend.

 

[The Incredible Hulk]

Weird. In the trailer description it was the uninfected who were moving quickly en masse trying to get away from the zombies, and climbing over each other, etc. But in the trailer, it looks like that may actually be the zombies who are moving like that. Hard to get a good look at them in the footage.

In the book, didn't Brooks mention that the "fresh" zombies were capable of moving faster than the ones who's been zombified and started decomposing? Thought I remember something like that, but it's been about a year since I last read the book.

 

[Balthus Dire]

Looks nothing like the tone of the book, but whatever. I actually don't mind running zombies in general but they just look weird in that trailer footage; I dunno if it's bad CGI or what.

The idea of them tripping over each other maniacally is scary but they look like a flock of crows or some crap which is kinda stupid IMO.

 

[redhawk23]

The most disturbing image of the book for me was when it described the herd of zombies moving across the midwest in a giant river like mob, much the way buffalo once did. :shivvers:

 

[redhawk23]

Also I really hope the Battle of Yonkers is in this. It is integral to the book and what the book does, pointing out the flaws in our confidence in high tech military strategies.

 

[Octoberist]

The CG needs work. What's so funny is that the post production on this has been frickin' long. No excuses!