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Based off of Max Brooks Novel (same author who wrote "The Zombie Survival Guide"

Plot: Ten years after the human victory over the world wide Zombie epidemic, referred to as World War Z, Max Brooks scours the world collecting the stories and experiences of those who have survived the conflict that almost eradicated humanity.

Its scheduled to come out in 2010 -_- , but I do hope hollywood comes through with this one.

Also, I would love to see Brian Keene's books, "The Rising" and "City of the Dead" on the big screen. :)

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I read the book and I loved it. This will be something I am keeping an eye out for.

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As much as I love the book, I wonder how it can really work on the big screen. It's way too epic and the constant changing of character could be confusing for far too much of the audience to be worthwhile. It'd be simpler to just do another "bunch of survivors stuck in a random place" style zombie movie.

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Good point, but the "survivors stuck in a random place style zombie movie" has been done to death:sick:. This is a interesting concept if they can get a good script made. I could see this as a 2 to 2:30 hour movie at most.

Another zombie movie I would love to see made is "When Zombies Attack" based off the short movies on the net and comic series. Its sorta like COPS, but with zombies

Heres the link to the web video
http://www.spike.com/video/when-zombies-attack/2402880

And the link to the comic
http://www.horrortalk.com/reviews/Wh...biesAttack.htm

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I know, I'm just playing devil's advocate here. There's a reason horror films tend to be low-budget and small-scale - because most people don't like horror or would prefer action or comedy. Horror movies (and especially zombie movies) have a rather limited appeal and therefore no producer is going to want to spend large amounts of money financing an epic horror movie if it means less people will come to it than, say, action or comedy.

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Interesting...
I loved the video! ;)

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Brad Pitt's staring in it. I do approve.

http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2010/07/21...orded-attacks/

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I'm kinda pessimistic about this one. The magic of the novel lies in its documentary-feel. I wonder if it will do good for the movie if it also lean towards that path. You know, ala District 9, or the first half of District 9.

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Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. I assume it will. An early incarnation of the script was reviewed on Ain't It Cool News years ago, I believe, and the reviewer had some kind of hyperbole about the something-or-other (fill in serious drama here) of zombie movies, which was encouraging, to say the least. Whether or not they can pull it off remains to be seen, but the ceiling for this flick is that it could absolutely step outside the genre a bit and exist as a legitimate, interesting dramatic film. The book's tone makes that possible, whereas most zombie films don't aspire to anything near that.

I'm fairly optimistic about this. It's been a long time coming, it's not some sudden smash hit they slapped together to capitalize on a passing craze. I'm actually not sure about Pitt, but I imagine they can ugly him up enough, depending on which role he's playing.

Yonkers, of course, will have to be the film's centerpiece sequence.

At this point, I'm really just wondering if they can blend a more traditional narrative into the documentary, like District 9, or if they'll try to use it the whole way through. There are a million choices about how to construct the film, really; do they use faux found footage? Documentary crews? Or do they just inexplicably have the footage, as if we're only seeing a visualization of the things each interviewee is describing? The last gives us the best look at the whole world, and it's a conceit I think audiences would accept.

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Maybe Pitt will portray Max Brooks himself, then we'll know if the film will take the documentary-path.

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The phrasing there is confusing me; he will, but then we'll know? Is there an omitted "if"?

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Sorry, almighty Yoda. Grammatical error on my part is inevitable. It shall be an "if". :)

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Ive read up on this and it sounds real interesting, I should really read the book before the film comes out.

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Sorry, didn't mean to sound pedantic, just wondered if it was a matter of "Brad Pitt's cast as Brooks, let's see if that means this" or "if Brad Pitt is cast as Brooks, it will mean this." I dig now.

And I agree, by the by.

This reminds me of the Gareth Edwards film Monsters, which screened at Cannes last year. According to all who have seen it, the film uses the creature genre as a distant backdrop to tell a more subtle and legitimately heartfelt story. I can't wait to see it, and I love how Indie directors are taking this new approach to horror/sci-fi genres.

Nobody has posted on this in a while so there is some news, Brad Pitt will be playing the part of Gerry Lane. The movie has a 125,000,000 budget which seems huge for a zombie film.

Set pictures here.

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Here is some sample dailogue:

"General Patton, the zombies have landed at Normandy." And they have eaten Montgomery."

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Ha, I love the release date.

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Why? Proximity to Christmas or something?

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Much better will be the planned It's a Wonderful Z Life. Clarence is too late to save George Bailey because he bent down to tie his shoes and George comes back as a zombie and eats everyone in town except Potter because his crippling arthritis makes him taste bad.

December 21st, 2012 is the supposed date of the end of the world.

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If the world ends on that day due to a zombie invasion, the movie won't do well at the box office because zombies don't have money.

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It will also suck cause the 22nd is my birthday.

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I think these are new. Newish set photos from the film.

http://shocktillyoudrop.com/nextraim...ockwwz824a.jpg

http://shocktillyoudrop.com/nextraim...ockwwz824b.jpg

http://shocktillyoudrop.com/nextraim...ockwwz824c.jpg

http://shocktillyoudrop.com/nextraim...ockwwz824d.jpg

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2 more Zombie set pics.

http://shocktillyoudrop.com/nextraim...ombie-wwz1.jpg

http://shocktillyoudrop.com/nextraim...ombie-wwz2.jpg

World War Z zombies burst through car windscreen and attack driver.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ma8l5udOlvc&feature=player_embedded

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Dear god I am looking forward to this.

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Bump!

More news from The Rodent... new poster has been revealed. Release date is June 21st 2013.

http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=35701

http://www.comingsoon.net/gallery/50...ld_War_Z_1.jpg

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcwTxRuq-uk

Thoughts?

A: I thought the Inception Brang was played out already...looks like I was wrong.

b: This doesn't really look anything like the book.

LOL, IDF soldiers everywhere.

Old jerusalem is on fire:

http://2012.uploaded.fresh.co.il/201...9/15526659.jpg

IDF kill zombies:

http://2012.uploaded.fresh.co.il/201...9/29232347.jpg

Israeli rambo:

http://2012.uploaded.fresh.co.il/201...9/18483921.jpg

Brad pitt helps IDF:

http://2012.uploaded.fresh.co.il/201...9/33604432.jpg

I heard a while back that they switched Director halfway through or rewrote a lot of it. That doesn't usually bode well imo.

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28 Days Later zombies on steroids.

Perhaps we weren't close enough to this year's Mayan apocalypse for you to have gotten that release date last year when you posted this... or were you being coy? ;)

Here's a link to a blog post by a local writer (well, local to ME) who writes about zombies and monsters, etc. He too is hoping WWZ doesn't disappoint:

http://claywrites.com/world-war-z/

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Oh, I LOVE the comment below the blog post by a guy named Blake. The "fake conversation" about how to do the movie is spot-on and hilarious. :)

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Can't wait for this movie. It looks promising, but the zombies are super retarded. They swarm like ants and run at the speed of light. The weird thing is that the zombies run together and topple of each other like a wave or something. In the trailer, the scene where the zombies tried climbing over the barricade is just sick

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Good thing my expectations were low, otherwise I'd think that trailer was a huge disappointment.

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I'm pretty worried about this movie. I'll watch anything with zombies but this seems almost more like Independence Day than a zombie movie.

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That trailer did not make me have much confidence in this film. I don't think I will be seeing it unless it just gets amazing reviews.

2nd trailer for World War Z....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EC7P5WdUko

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Well, that didn't get my hopes up.

Ime going to treat this as a prequel to I Am Legend.

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They were vampires in I Am Legend, not zombies.

This seems like another uninteresting apocalyptic blockbuster about zombies (yet again) and a vehicle for Brad Pitt to earn some big money, so he can do some other good, less paying quality projects.

These kind of films just have to exist, I'm afraid.

I think a few years ago, you'd be right but The Walking Dead is hugely successful. It's the perfect time for a Zombie Blockbuster. :)

Well, that post you quoted was literally from a few years ago and I didn't anticipate The Walking Dead becoming a TV show at all, let alone a successful one. However, there's no denying that there's quite a bit of difference between both that show and what World War Z is shaping up to be. For instance, Walking Dead still sticks to the "small group of survivors" formula and has slow zombies and quite a bit of violence, whereas World War Z looks like a Roland Emmerich disaster movie with blurry faceless masses of running zombies and is apparently headed for a PG-13 rating, which doesn't exactly bode well.

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Zombies do not make for good PG 13 material. They should be R or released unrated like the original Night of the Living Dead, Dawn and Day of the Dead.

Yeah, they should have thought of that before making a summer blockbuster with a nine-figure budget.

Neither should the Hunger Games. Totally agree with you.

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And the production hell this movie has been in will probably mean it is going to be bad. Hell in the trailers Brad Pitt seems to be on autopilot. And given the CGI fest I have seen from the trailers, this is defiantly going to have CGI gore. I hate CGI gore in a horror movie! Someone hire Tom Savini dammit!

Also Marc Forster is the director. He did that pile of **** Bond movie, Quontam of Solace.

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But that being said, I will end up seeing this movie, if only to rip it a new one when I am done.

Given the PG-13 rating, there's probably going to be next to no gore anyway.

Not going to lie I did not see that movie. Not a Daniel Craig Bond fan.

You have a point. So even if there is any gore, it is going to be CGI. Which only adds to my beef with this film. Why a PG-13 zombie fest? Oh yeah, so they can market it to teens too! Mother ****ers!

Considering the nine-figure budget they're apparently working with, it makes sense that they'd appeal to as many demographics as possible in order to make their money back. Granted, Terminator 3 had an R-rating and also had a budget of nearly US$200m but that was built on a well-established property so people were guaranteed to see it.

Agreed. But since this is based off a very popular book which should be the target audience, why not respect them? Scale the budget back and do something on a smaller scale? Have it rated R, practical gore, and have a more simple story. Hell pay homage to the book; have a bunch of different stories from across the globe in little vignettes. That seems to be a better idea then this, as you said, Roland Emmerich cluster ****! Sure then it would not be the summer blockbuster they want, but at least then it would have a much better chance of being a good movie!

Presumably because it's not profitable. I can't shake the feeling that the script is more or less totally original but the whole "unfolding zombie pandemic" scenario was made well-known by the book; in theory, this leads the producers to buy up the rights to the book's title because it's easier to deal with fans of the book complaining about an unfaithful adaptation than those same fans saying their movie is a straight rip-off of the book's premise. At least, that's the reasoning that makes sense to me when I come across an adaptation that discards virtually everything about its source save for the title and certain key story elements (e.g. the Dawn of the Dead remake, where the only thing it has in common with the original is that it takes place in a shopping mall).

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I do see where you are coming from. But if the movie is going to be named World War Z, it should have some connection to the book aside from the name. And as we have agreed, if you are going to tackle zombies, go for the hard R.

Also interesting note: I saw the Dawn of the dead remake before I saw the original; and I still say the original is better, and is one of my favorite movies. Though I will defend the remake as a good movie, and an example of a good remake.

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ahhh not trolling here, but I'm so sick of Zombies. I'm boycotting anything Zombie related. Unless they make a Zombieland sequel, I enjoyed that movie, but haven't seen anything Zombie related since. Studios are just so lazy anymore. I can see the conversations now.

Studio Head 1 - "Let's make a movie about college"
Studio Head 2 - "Well how will we make it profitable for us?"
Studio Head 1 - "Duh, make it Zombie University"
Studio Head 2 - "Yea those idiots will see anything with a Zombie in it"
Studio Head 1 - "Cha-Ching"

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Even as someone who is a bit of a closet zombie-ite I'm lacking any particular urge to go and see this film. If it even manages to find its way through the production issues it's still having.

I tend to agree with, MovieBuffering, studios are becoming lazy, and there is a monumental lack of originality. One studio makes a comic book movie...everyone else jumps on the bandwagon. Make a fairytale movie, of course, everyone else follows. And so it goes...

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Went out and bought the book the other day. Really enjoying it so far. Would propably be a great movie if they followed the style of the book, a series of interviews and flashbacks, a little bit like District 9.

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Dash, and if that's not bad enough, they don't just make one comic book movie... they make remakes. How many Spider-Man movie versions have we seen? Batman? Superman? The Hulk? Do we need remakes of these things? And remakes of remakes?

But at least this is based on a book that was semi-original in its scope. However, none of the trailers give me any hope that it's going to have the same docu-drama feel of the book. :(

Ahh I refused to see the new Spidermans. Throwing my money at it means I support this recycled material I literally just saw. Talk about a pointless re-boot. While i'm not against re-booting a comic book movie give it some freaking time. They ruined Batman by trying to money grab after the 80s movies doing the Clooney, Kilmer batmans. They stashed it for a decade and took their time with it and made 3 kick-ass movies.

Let the movies breathe and give sometime for a filmmaker to put a different interpretation on the characters. Like Nolan with Batman.

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The movie looks like it's going to have very little in common with the novel (which is too bad). Still, I am a big fan of the genre so despite the fact I have sever misgivings about the final project, I will still check it out. Something tells me it's not going to do so hot at the box office.

So very true, Austruck.

I must own that I have never read the book that the film is based on. I do think I'll be waiting for this one to hit Blu-Ray down the track before I see it.

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http://www.shocktillyoudrop.com/news...ng-world-war-z

Apparently 3 new TV Spots released within the past 24 hours.

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I love me some zombie movies, so I don't care what criticism the movie is getting, I'm psyched to see World War Z. I don't care if it doesn't follow the book closely, so long as it's enjoyable. Admittedly, I've never read the book, though. But I would like to eventually get around to it. Might wait until after watching the movie, though.

I'm looking forward to it, despite my love of the book. It looks pretty good to me from the trailer.

Saw it the other day.

Liked it but it's nothing like the book!

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I can't wait to see this movie! I am pretty excited about this one, even if it is Brad Pitt.

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Off to see World War Z this coming weekend.

Despite reports of the film being far removed from the book I'm still looking forward to it.

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I'm just about to read this book for this. Well, I'll probably wait until after I watch the movie. Books are usually way better, so it just makes the movie seem worse. But I definitely look forward to watching WWZ.

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I have started the book as I love 'The Zombie Survival Guide' and this looks great but I have heard its nothing like the book :/ Either way I dont care it has zombies in it.

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^ Love that Zombie Survival Guide book. :D

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I wanna see the movie, will look into buying the book as well. Who's the author?

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Max Brooks.

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The Book is so good that I read twice within a month. I don't recall doing that with books or movies for ages.

Here is the same situation :) can't wait the rest days.
Already read book which excited me to watch full.
Surely going to see....

Its a great book! :highfive:

I never read the book so that matters little to me. The trailer actually was impressive. I'm surprised but this may actually be a good film. We'll all know soon.

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World War Z is doing very well in the US this week, I believe its number 2.

Also I read they are planning a sequel to it all ready.

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I hope there is not a sequel. This movie was awful!

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Dammit! Still a sh!tty movie so f**k me seeing the sequel.

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I havent seen it yet so I'll let you know what I think of it :yup:

I watched an interview with Brad Pitt and he alluded to, that it has the makings of a trilogy and more.

Cool, I like anything with zombies :D Hope I like this film, The trailers look badass :yup:

I think it'll be exciting but zombie stuff is not my thing. I might go see it but I don't expect to love it. I'm more excited to see White House Down.

I'm interested in seeing how this movie turns out.

Me too, the trailer genuinely frightened me.

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Havn't seen it yet but with a PG-13 rating and zombies that look like I Am Legend vampires it's probably a disaster.

-IMO great zombie movies can either do slow or fast zombies

Dawn of the Dead remake was a great example of a redone classic done well. That **** was scary

Walking dead zombies also work and are just as scary.

I grew up watching Romero and Fulci zombie movies and where i see it now, Why dont you have the rotting dead be slow and the fresh dead be fast? albeit their legs still intact.