Marc Forster to Direct World War Z

[Flexo]

Groovy.

I still have to read the book though.

 

[Mr. Socko]

How many more of these Zombie movies do we need?

 

[black_dust]

many bring on the gore i say

 

[L0ngsh0t]

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

Grand point!


If cool world wasn't enough proof...Brad Pit rules

 

[Mr. Credible]

How many more of these Zombie movies do we need?

as many as hollywood can crank out... zombie movies are like pizza, even if they're bad, they're still good.

 

[Sava]

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."

nice

 

[Superman: Idols]

as many as hollywood can crank out... zombie movies are like pizza, even if they're bad, they're still good.

Believe me, if "World War Z" is anything like the book it will be amazing. "Z" was one of the coolest zombie novels I've ever read. actually, its of the only zombie novels I've ever read...

 

[Kritish]

Looks good, looking forward to it.

 

[Hunter Rider]

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=50513

Source: Variety
November 14, 2008


Paramount Pictures has set Quantum of Solace director Marc Forster to helm World War Z, based on the Max Brooks best-selling novel about a worldwide infestation of flesh-eating zombies, reports Variety.

Changeling scribe J. Michael Straczynski is writing the screenplay, and Brad Pitt's Plan B is producing.

Brooks -- the son of Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft -- wrote a detailed tale in which a researcher for the U.N. Postwar Commission interviews survivors from countries all over the world, 10 years after the crisis, to gather a first-person post-mortem on a war that obliterated every country on the map.

"The genre always fascinated me, and when they pitched it to me, it reminded me of the paranoid conspiracy films of the '70s like 'All the President's Men,' " Forster told the trade.

 

[Mr.Webs]

How many more of these Zombie movies do we need?

As many as we need 'till we get it right.

If 'World War Z' is done correctly? Then we can see the zombie genre actually become respected, and even recognized as an actual form of serious horror film.

Cross my fingers.

 

[ttotheusher]

Whatever the case, we need The Zombie Survival Guide as a DVD extra with Stephen Fry narration.

 

[JackBauer]

They should've done this as a miniseries of faux-documentaries... Best way to capture the feel of the book. If they manage to make the movie half as scary as the book, I'll be impressed.

 

[BlackLantern]

Id go with a documentary style film with some flashbacks...I do love the book though

 

[GhostPoet]

Sigh...I have to see it. It's a zombie movie.

 

[xisaacx]

As many as we need 'till we get it right.

If 'World War Z' is done correctly? Then we can see the zombie genre actually become respected, and even recognized as an actual form of serious horror film.

Cross my fingers.

How do you do a zombie movie correctly though, If you are referring to the book adaptation I understand. But there's no WRONG way to do a zombie movie, its all about the directors interpretation. Everyone has a different idea of how a zombie flick should be there's no right and wrong way.

 

[Dark Victory]

Great book. Can't wait to see the movie. Does anyone know when it's going to released? 2010?

 

[Mr.Webs]

How do you do a zombie movie correctly though, If you are referring to the book adaptation I understand. But there's no WRONG way to do a zombie movie, its all about the directors interpretation. Everyone has a different idea of how a zombie flick should be there's no right and wrong way.

Sorry. What I meant, was that we haven't tapped into the potential of the zombie genre. Most zombie films just have the blood and the guts...very few tap into the very real fear that lays beneath. That's what I meant.

 

[xisaacx]

Sorry. What I meant, was that we haven't tapped into the potential of the zombie genre. Most zombie films just have the blood and the guts...very few tap into the very real fear that lays beneath. That's what I meant.

Cant argue with you there. If they do make the movie, they need to focus on the human element and psychological effects of the zombie outbreak on the actual population. Basically more about the people who aren't zombies, kinda walking deadish.

 

[BlackLantern]

I recently saw Romeros 'Diary of the Dead' and he gets that fear element across very well...that the worst monsters aren't the zombies, but what happens to the people left surviving

 

[Hunter Rider]

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=51009

J. Michael Straczynski Talks World War Z
Source: MTV
December 3, 2008


MTV talked to screenwriter J. Michael Straczynski about adapting World War Z, the Paramount adaptation of the Max Brooks best-selling novel to be directed by Marc Forster (Quantum of Solace).

The novel is a detailed tale in which a researcher for the U.N. Postwar Commission interviews survivors from countries all over the world, 10 years after a worldwide infestation of flesh-eating zombies, to gather a first-person post-mortem on a war that obliterated every country on the map.

"We talk about it as a thriller, the closest comparison being 'The Bourne Identity,'" explained Straczynski, "Most zombie movies to this point have been small, focusing on a few people in a house. And this has got real scare. You're in India with hundreds of boats trying to get out of there with a tidal wave of zombies. The scale of what we're doing here is phenomenal."

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[dsfjr1190]

I've never read the book, but I'm almost done listening to the audio book-version. It is a famous cast consisting of Mark Hamill, Henry Rollins, John Turturro, Rob Reiner, and Max Brooks.

So far my favorite part is the Battle of Yonkers. Mark Hammil is amazing in the role of Todd Wanio.

 

[Timstuff]

I haven't read World War Z yet, but I absolutely love the Zombie Survival Guide, and I'm sure this movie will kick ass if done right. Maybe they'll release a movie version of Zombie Survival Guide as a tie-in companion DVD or something.

 

[Arcturus]

I haven't read World War Z yet, but I absolutely love the Zombie Survival Guide, and I'm sure this movie will kick ass if done right. Maybe they'll release a movie version of Zombie Survival Guide as a tie-in companion DVD or something.

Timstuff, I highly recommend World War Z, if you liked Zombie Survival Guide, you'll definitely dig WWZ.



I can't wait for the film to be released!

 

[AlteredEgo]

yeah, id recommend reading this book to anyone who will listen.

 

[Ion Kenshin]

I tell everyone about it. People make fun at the fact that I own the Zombie Survival Guide but I tell them "Hey at least I'm prepared."