"WWZ movie will have running zombies " Topic

Before they add CGI effects:
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You just cannot trust Hollywood.

One of the commenters says that he thinks runners are more frightening than shuffling zombies. But the point of zombie cinema & fiction is not that the zombies are going to get you immediately…it's that they outnumber you and will get you eventually. The zombie plague has caused civilization to grind to a halt. No local cops, no firefighters, no one working the oil wells, no trucks delivering food to the grocery store, no daily flights out of Chicago. Shuffling zombies are damn scary when they're inserted into that environment.

Do not click on the World War Z (2012) – Official Movie Trailer [HD] 1080p The link goes to a gay guy dancing? Is he trolling U-tube for hook ups?
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James Mates

Figures. Nowadays Hollywood (a) doesn't have an original thought left in their little minds and (2) screws up most of what they do try to do.

Runners would worry me a bit more then the walking one I would think, if you were to turn a corner and one was there it would be all over you before you knew it, now if was a walker you could almost hop skip and jump down the road and get away. Sure the walkers will out number you but the runner will do it in faster numbers.

It's just IMO Hollywood is just taking the 25 to 30 year old block busters and rehashing them with the younger actors that are recognized by this current generation, for the money aspect of it all, if it was a hit then it will be a hit now and the records prove it with ticket sells. Don't risk it on something new and unknown with no record of ticket sells. hell give them time and they will do a remake of The Rocky Horror Picture Show based on ticket sells

What I never understood:
- Zombies move so they need energy
- Zombies do not eat zombies
- After all humans have been eaten, wouldnt the zombies starve to death?

So you just have to wait a month or two ?

@Sundance – Agreed. Look at "Battlefield Earth"… Great freaking book, and they destroyed it as a movie. I definitely think that their success with "Starship Troopers" was a fluke… I hope they don't jack this one up or (hearing through the rumor mill) "Ender's Game"…

Grey Matter 13; you are being VERY ironic. Right? Right?

Schulein 06 Sep 2011 1:57 p.m. PST wrote:
What I never understood:
- Zombies do not eat zombies

Now this one needs it own thread! I never gave it much thought until about a minute before I read what you posted.
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James Mattes

I've read the Michael J. Michael Straczynski scripts and there were no mention of running zombies. This was apparently the issue that made Straczynski left the project.

What I never understood:
- Zombies move so they need energy
- Zombies do not eat zombies
- After all humans have been eaten, wouldnt the zombies starve to death?

So you just have to wait a month or two ?

pretty much like the ending of 28 days later when all the infected are shown lying beside the roads. I don't think the zombies plan very far ahead…

Zombies may not eat us for sustenance. They may just like the way we taste or are just ed off at us.

Zombies are dead, they don't need to eat. Eating brains is just a hobby.

Fast Zombies=Anathema! Wrong even by the book's standards.
How awful.

Look at "Battlefield Earth"… Great freaking book, and they destroyed it as a movie

Funniest comment of the day!

I've read the Michael J. Michael Straczynski scripts and there were no mention of running zombies. This was apparently the issue that made Straczynski left the project.

JMS has a long history of dropping projects halfway through, especially in the comic book world. He's really not a 'finisher.'

Running zombies: why not?
The 'contaminated' of [rec] are quite mobile (I'm not convinced by the 'theological' interpretation in the 2nd movie: superstitious minds can so easily give a 'supernatural', yet self-consistent, explanation of a purely natural phenomenon, re the hundreds -thousands?- of people burnt at the stake for sorcery because the flour was tainted with ergot sclerotium).

If 'Old School' (Voodoo) zombies could be 'rationalized' by the effects of drugs and suggestion, 'New Model' ones are victims of an infection. Then, viruses *mutate*: not a storytelling gimmick, a fact of 'The Real World™'. The case of flu is well known, every year a new strain appears, sometimes only slightly different from the previous one, sometimes drastically more dangerous ("Spanish flu"). In the same way, rabies carried by bats is genetically related to the 'classical' one but leads to the same conclusion through a very different sequence of symptoms.
Thus it is perfectly understandable (indeed likely) that we observe different strains of 'zombifying' agents. The 'original' form probably not very different from rabies (hydrophobia included) leaves the victim quite mobile. But viruses easily integrate foreign genetic material in case of co-infection (H1N1; think about the rich 'hot bed' in the saliva of the Sumatran rat-monkey) or even from the host. If the virus took nucleic acid coding for prions (the Kuru / 'laughing sickness' "human" TSE transmitted through cannibalism link and by itself causing an apparent 'ghoulification'), the victim loses a lot of his/her mobility and intelligence: the 'common' type of 'infected' zombie.