Marc Forster to Direct World War Z

[Rowsdower!]

Well, even if it doesn't follow the book at all... I think the movie looks pretty intense based on that trailer.

 

[roach]

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[nightwing06]

Looks pretty good The Zombies have that same type of feel of the Zombies of I Am Legend crossed with a large swarm of Locusts,guess i will check out the book before this hits theatres

 

[Kane52630]

Looks pretty good The Zombies have that same type of feel of the Zombies of I Am Legend crossed with a large swarm of Locusts,guess i will check out the book before this hits theatres

Good luck considering it's nothing like the book. lol

 

[marvelman2006]

It looks good but I get the feeling that we have been down this road before, its the same feeling Im getting with I am Legend. All CGI zombies running and dying and no real weight to it.

 

[Rowsdower!]

Eh, I don't know. I know they're inherently similar based on the look of the zombies, but at least this movie appears to have a lot going on. I Am Legend was just f***ing boring. All Will Smith did was sleep in a bathtub and talk to mannequins.

 

[ShredderX]

Hate to say it, but the trailer for" Warm Bodies " looks better than this.

 

[Whiskey Tango]

These guys look a lot better than I am Legend to me. At least there's a *reason* for these ones to be cgi

 

[Marvolo]

Visual effects supervisor John Nelson explains why they move so fast.

They are like predatory animals that can’t control themselves,” Nelson said. “I worked with tigers [while shooting GLADIATOR], and if you watch them when a horse goes by they go batty, even if they know they can’t reach it. When Zs see humans they do same thing, they activate. They launch themselves.”
Nelson mentioned additional references: “There are a lot of things in nature we’re mining as references. They move like birds or school of fish, too, in reactive formations, and it’s not because they have a higher level of [shared] thinking or communication – it’s about their nature and the fact that their instinct to infect is so basic, efficient, and overpowering. They will go through anything. If they lose both legs, they will walk on their hands. They lock in and they’re like salmon going upstream or sperm swimming to be the first to egg.”

insidemovies.ew.com/2012/11/08/brad-pitt-world-war-z-photo/

So its more about them being a virus tying to spread rather than eating flesh. They dont want to eat you so much as infect you. I like that.

 

[roach]

sounds cool...makes sense to me

 

[terry78]

So it is kind of a hive mind thing. The virus itself would technically be a living thing trying to infect more and more.

 

[Balthus Dire]

I don't think that's what he said at all. He said it's not like they have shared communication or thinking, but rather that they function on a basic level and thus work as a swarm as part of basic, efficient instinct.

Also, I'll absolutely hate if they're not zombies and they're just "infected."

 

[terry78]

It's kind of contradictory.

 

[Piper Maru]

I'm curious as to how long it takes to becomes a zombie in the movie version of World War Z. If I recall correctly it took a day or two after infection to "zombify" in the World War Z book and the Zombie Survival Guide.

On a side note. Even with all the negative feedback in this thread, which I understand, I'm still looking forward to this. I'll hold judgement until I actually see the film.

 

[roach]

It's kind of contradictory.

not really...when you think of birds flying south or salmon swimming up stream its not because they have a hive mind but because of instinct. Sort of like a zombie wolf pack

 

[Balthus Dire]

I'm curious as to how long it takes to becomes a zombie in the movie version of World War Z. If I recall correctly it took a day or two after infection to "zombify" in the World War Z book and the Zombie Survival Guide.

On a side note. Even with all the negative feedback in this thread, which I understand, I'm still looking forward to this. I'll hold judgement until I actually see the film.

Judging from the leaked set video a while back, it seems like the change happens within seconds of infection. Another change from the book.

 

[Nathan]

So it's like 28 Days Later.

 

[TheVileOne]

Marc Forster was the wrong guy to make this movie, especially after Quantum of Solace.

All the reshoots and delays will make it very hard for the movie to recoop it's double budget now even with Brad Pitt.

 

[roach]

I dont think this is a zombie apocalypse I could survive...slow shuffling zombies and I have a chance....full speed feral rippers...im done

 

[Nathan]

I guess the only way is to lock your doors immediately, stay inside, don't make a sound, hope you have enough food to survive a couple days. Then take a peek outside, find out in which direction all the the Zombies were running and haul ass into the opposite direction.

 

[Piper Maru]

I actually don't mind running zombies. If it takes only a moment to change into one, then I can understand them still being very mobile. But I imagine with the passage of time they start to breakdown and become slower as they decay. I don't know why this isn't addressed in "fast" zombie movies. Or maybe it has?

 

[Nathan]

I don't think it's ever been addressed or shown. I think the Zombies in the Dawn of the Dead remake, where still as fast at the end of the Movie, as they were on the first day.

 

[Balthus Dire]

In Brooks's zombie books (the mythology this movie is supposed to be based on) the zombies take years and years to decay because the virus slows down decomposition. That's why part of the story spans a huge number of years while everyone waits for the zombies to basically die off. Then, when they realize the zombies aren't just gonna go away on their own, they start to take back the earth by killing the zombies off systematically.

The running part doesn't bother me as much as the fact that it sounds like they're not even zombies at all, just infected humans like 28 Days Later or some crap. I also still think the herd thing looks stupid as hell.

 

[redhawk23]

Visual effects supervisor John Nelson explains why they move so fast.



insidemovies.ew.com/2012/11/08/brad-pitt-world-war-z-photo/

So its more about them being a virus tying to spread rather than eating flesh. They dont want to eat you so much as infect you. I like that.

Meh, its not like that hasn't been done. 28 days later already exists.

 

[Bruce Malone]

The things is running "zombies" makes sense in the world of 28 days as they are just people infected with a virus that makes them batty.

The WWZ Zombies are just that zombies. They can only be killed by destroying their brain. If you chop their head off they will still be chomping on the ground. They are traditional Romero zombies as seen now in the walking dead. Not people with a virus that can be killed by any method.

They should move like they what they are, barely strung together corpses with no higher reflexes. Not with animal or "tiger" life reflexes.

This movie better be able to stand on its own because i see nothing taken from the books here.