rss feedJ. Michael Straczynski is writing the screen play for World War Z woo woo
I am super excited. Michael Straczynski is writing the screen play adaptation of Max Brooks, World War Z. Unfortunately we all have to wait until a 2010 release…
World War Z, a novel describing accounts of the zombie apocalypse is being turned into a movie! World War Z tells the story of a zombie plague that almost destroys mankind when governments and armies are initially unable to control the spread of the infestation. Ten years after the war has ended, author Max Brooks goes around interviewing various people across the globe about their experiences during World War Z.
Unlike Brooks’ previous novel (the zombie survival guide), World War Z is pretty darned serious. The soldiers are trained for conventional warfare against, well, the living. Which is probably how Brad Pitt’s production company managed to attract Marc Forster to direct a movie version of the book. The movie is set for a 2010 release date.
Forster has directed such films as: The Kite Runner, Monster’s Ball, Stranger Than Fiction. He has proven himself capable of directing larger scale action blockbusters with the recent Bond movie, Quantum of Solace.
J. Michael Straczynski, best known for Babylon 5, has already written a script for World War Z. Forster has likened the planned movie to ‘Seventies conspiracy thrillers such as All the President’s Men. Straczynski in turn has compared the movie to The Bourne Identity and remarked that World War Z will have a large international scope while keeping the film as political as the book was.
There are many such epic scenes – of masses of humanity fleeing the oncoming zombie hordes; of harbors being blocked by derelict ships; and so on. Horror movies have great opening weekends, but they soon taper off at the box office. You don’t need expensive crowd scenes and CGI effects to make Friday the 13th or Halloween, but if they want to do Brooks’ book justice then that is exactly what World War Z will need.
Still, whatever the end product may be: World War Z is a worth-while read that even those tired of zombies would want to check out.
