With all the talk on how the film will deviate from the book, I'm debating on whether or not to read the book before watching the movie. Plus Brad Pitt + Big Budget Science Fiction Movie ... I'm going to pretend nothing can go wrong!
World War Z
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With all the talk on how the film will deviate from the book, I'm debating on whether or not to read the book before watching the movie. Plus Brad Pitt + Big Budget Science Fiction Movie ... I'm going to pretend nothing can go wrong!
Grimmlokk
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Read the book,afterwatching the movie. Doing it the other way around might ruin the experience.
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but bro, that wall is obviously Israel.
I am gonna make a punt here... Brad Pitt could be the guy who wrote the plan in case of the emergency. Forget what it was called, but it was from South Africa. Maybe that's why they are asking for his help.
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Had to look it up, his name was Redeker. Though
The plan of basically sacrificing a bunch of people intentionally to save people in a more defensible area doesn't sound like movie hero stuff.
They could still have that be his character, but if so he will be absolutely nothing like in the book.
http://zombie.wikia.com/wiki/Redeker_Plan
They could still have that be his character, but if so he will be absolutely nothing like in the book.
http://zombie.wikia.com/wiki/Redeker_Plan
The more reshoots they've done and re-edits etc the further away from the source material it has gone. They seem to be almost bragging about making the zombies as fast as they have which is a 100% game changer alone.
As others have said, it might be a decent Zombie film. It just sucks they've ensured the film/mini-series we really wanted to see will now never be made.
The fantastically cast audio book version of World War Z will remain the definitive version.
As others have said, it might be a decent Zombie film. It just sucks they've ensured the film/mini-series we really wanted to see will now never be made.
The fantastically cast audio book version of World War Z will remain the definitive version.
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Yeah. It's told from the perspective of multiple survivors, as told to one writer. Written chronologically from the start of the outbreak on. Perspectives bounce all over the world so you get an idea of how it effects people on every scale from individuals to massive hordes.
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It's a really fun read. I like to finish one of the individual stories and then just kind of sit back and day dream about it. Similar to how I might read a graphic novel. I end up cracking it open after I finish something really dense just because of how enjoyable and easy it is. Finished Malazan and WWZ was the perfect follow up for just mindless enjoyment. Probably have read it 7 or 8 times by now.
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Book is great. It's not so much trying to tell the story of a single person in a zombie outbreak--like 99.9999% of zombie movies/books, it's mankind's story. Which, from a person who was always more interested in the "post apocalyptic world", rather than the the story, made it great for me.
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it's also cliche as fuck, but it is the cool kind of cliche.
(Ninja and samurai/contemporary notions of varying cultures and nations).
(Ninja and samurai/contemporary notions of varying cultures and nations).
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I'm excited the Zombie genre is getting some big budget/real actor recognition. I do however share the concerns of my fellow posters here though. That much CGI could spell disaster. I also am not a huge fan of fast moving zombies. Give me Romero zombies all day!
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I'm going to need to forget the book in order to enjoy this. But, there hasnt been a great zombie movie in a while so here we go!
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