World War Z Latest News and Updates (set for 2010)
World War Z
In mid-November, Marc Forster signed on to direct this large scale zombie movie adaptation. Forester is the director of the latest Bond movie, Quantum of Solace. According to IMDB, his other works include indie favorites Monsters Ball, Kite Runner, Stranger Than Fiction and Finding Neverland.
I have no doubt that Forester can tell a good story. After all, his indie efforts are proof of that. However, his latest debut as an action movie director has me a little concerned. Bond, although good, was a little disjointed at parts and the action sequences were just a little rough around the edges. My hope is that he can learn from his successes and failures from his entire portfolio to pull off one of the greatest, large scale zombie movies of all time. Time will tell.
Other World War Z movie news includes information about the script. Michael Straczynski, is revisiting his first draft of the movie adaptation to include some of the notes from from Marc Forster. According to Rotten Tomatoes, Strazynski had this to say about the script:
“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.”
The writers at Aintitcoolnews.com, who have seen the most recent draft of the “pre-director changes” script, have gone as far as to say that the movie is:
“a horror epic, a serious, sober-minded adult picture”, potentially “a genre-defining piece of work” with Best Picture potential
The fact that its being produced by Brad Pitt’s production company is awesome as well. There are rumors that Pitt himself will play the main interviewer/researcher, Gary Lane. Pitt would do a great job in this role, and I’m increasingly excited to see this all coming together.
If this movie is truly genre-defining, and has the mass-appeal that I believe they are going for, then this could mean a whole slew of new zombie movies will get funded and created. I don’t think anybody would argue that we’re in kind of a slump right now. After the success of 28 Days Later, we had a bunch of great and well funded zombie movies come out…but that just isn’t the case these days. In fact, it seemed to me that Quarantine, the most recent Zombie movie to hit the big screen, tried to stay away from the fact that it was a zombie film in the previews and marketing….
I’m keeping my fingers crossed!
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December 5th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
Holy Crap I’m so excited for this movie to come out, I will be there at midnight to see this one…the book is so well written and I feel that with those involved it will be nicely translated to film.
ZC field trip on premiere night (we need to have t-shirts by that point!)
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December 5th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
I think your opinion of the action sequances in Quantum of Solace are a bit off base. Did you not self proclaim you had no idea what happened at all in the movie because you were too annoyed to pay attention?
I am not a big zombie movie fan but i’ll be excited to see this.
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December 5th, 2008 at 1:33 pm
RE: Action Sequences
I really hate it when during a fight sequence (or any action sequence) when they get too up-close on the actual fight. So up-close and shakey that you really can’t tell what’s going on. They did this in the 2nd Bourne movie as well. It really ruins it for me.
In Solace, the director did a bunch of this….not all the way through, but there were a number of places (the car seen in the beginning especially) where it was all too up-close and shakey.
I just think there is a better way to tell the story.
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December 5th, 2008 at 6:55 pm
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November 29th, 2009 at 5:53 pm
“After the success of 28 Days Later, we had a bunch of great and well funded zombie movies come out…but that just isn’t the case these days. In fact, it seemed to me that Quarantine, the most recent Zombie movie to hit the big screen, tried to stay away from the fact that it was a zombie film in the previews and marketing…”
Oh please. Don’t even start with those movies. I personally think that 28 Days Later (and 28 Weeks Later) sucked. Though, I’m sure others would agree. And these had what I call the ‘New Zombies.’ Zombies that can now… run fast, use weapons, is able to comprehend things so as to avoid getting killed, and can communicate. And TECHNICALLY these weren’t ‘zombies’ becuase the definition of a zombie is a reanimated corpse. They die then become a zombie, which would take a bit of time. But as seen in the movie, when the blonde girl got bitten in the beginning (of 28 weeks later), within seconds she immediately turned into a zombie. Not just that. The film 28 Days Later depicts the outbreak of an engineered “rage virus” which transforms its victims into a zombie-like state; however, they maintain higher cerebellar function. They exhibit pack and hunting behavior and move too fluidly to be classified as true zombies.
Overall, it had bad effects, bad writing and was horrible. Wasn’t happy with it.
Now can someone explain why the hell other people put I Am Legend, and Quarantine are on the ‘Zombie Movie’ list?
Thanks for your time, I love you all.
Oh BTW can’t wait for World War Z, nice review.
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February 8th, 2010 at 8:28 am
I really Can’t wait to see this movie!!!!!! And personally I hated the concept of Rage Zombies in 28 Days/weeks later
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