UPDATE (Check out an awesome behind-the-scenes shot from the film (at the end of this article)).
The much anticipated "World War Z". due out next year (2012), and starring Brad Pitt, Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad), has spawned dozens of fan-made trailers. A lot of negative reports have been surfacing on and off the shoot, indicating the producers, director, writer were incapable of effectively capture the true nature of the book, and have opted instead for a standard zombie flick.
That would be a shame, as the book is truly awesome, and if Plan B and Paramount Pictures (among the half dozen production companies involved) screw it up, there's going to be a pretty big backlash from the huge fan base.
But-- if you want to watch a great fan-made trailer that does, I believe, captures the rawness of the book, here you go:
We've also managed to find an interesting behind-the-scene clip of WWZ being filmed that shows a crowd of people fleeing from a zombie hoard, with one guy getting munched, turning undead in seconds, and pounding the hell out of his minivan. I'll bet he's just wishing it wasn't a minivan.
The much anticipated "World War Z". due out next year (2012), and starring Brad Pitt, Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad), has spawned dozens of fan-made trailers. A lot of negative reports have been surfacing on and off the shoot, indicating the producers, director, writer were incapable of effectively capture the true nature of the book, and have opted instead for a standard zombie flick.
That would be a shame, as the book is truly awesome, and if Plan B and Paramount Pictures (among the half dozen production companies involved) screw it up, there's going to be a pretty big backlash from the huge fan base.
But-- if you want to watch a great fan-made trailer that does, I believe, captures the rawness of the book, here you go:
We've also managed to find an interesting behind-the-scene clip of WWZ being filmed that shows a crowd of people fleeing from a zombie hoard, with one guy getting munched, turning undead in seconds, and pounding the hell out of his minivan. I'll bet he's just wishing it wasn't a minivan.
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Good work!
It's basically impossible for a movie to be as good as the book is. But... I'll still keep hoping...
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We are all hoping...
Love it!
From everything I've heard and read over the past few years, the real WWZ has no hope of making it to the big screen. It truly will be just another standard zombie flick instead of the gloriously serious and hard-hitting docudrama it should be. Even the IMDB entry is depressing, using phrases like "race against time," implying that the film will not skip around over two decades and that humanity might even win the war in mere years, if not months or weeks.
Even "The Walking Dead" has begun faltering from its source material, the way I hear. I read the first super-anthology and watched the first season, noting that (though dissimilar) both excelled at being excellent, evolving character dramas, while I've been told the second season has lost its sense of direction and character development.
Hollywood just can't quite seem to grasp a sustained, serious approach to seriously documenting a "zombie apocalypse." They always come close, but it's never WWZ.
I agree with you regarding Walking Dead, Season 2. But if you stick with it, Episode 7 redeems, and the last episode (especially Episode 10) was a nail-biter.
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