"Read WWZ b4 seeing flick" Topic

Saw the trailers, but just wanna say the book is good. I don't think Brooks put a number on it, but I' m guessing Zack's numbers were 65 percent of the population. Say 2-3 billion? Am I wrong?

I think this is going to be one of those "the book was better than the movie" things. I don't know if they can follow the book too closely due to the nature of how the story was told in a combination of interviews. Still the book was great the movie looks good, can't wait to see if. I see a spike in zombie figure sales coming.

Don't forget: NO BLOOD!
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How can you make a zombie flick with no blood?
Pass…

I really liked the book, wish there had been more in it to be honest too. The ending in the book seemed to just happen somehow, much quicker than it began, but I suppose that's the nature of it.

Max Brooks, the original book author, apparently has had to sign over his book and let Hollywood get on with it, so its going to have little to do with the book in many ways I believe apart from the overall 'Zombies kill the world' etc. I will still go and see it, although I will view it as a popcorn 'stand alone' type film and not think about the book, I think I will enjoy it more (as I really liked the book and they don't compare from what I can tell)

Overall and to be fair it may be a entertaining film, but give me slow zeds and the original book anyday. Oh, and 65% of 7.1 Billion (current world population) is about 4.6 Billion, that's a lot of dead roaming about…

The trailer alone should convince you not to waste your time/money. Swarms of "zombies" moving like giant tentacles of scarabs from "The Mummy"? Really?

The book has walkers, not runners.

I will still go see it, though. Just plan on it not being the book (which I quite enjoyed).

> Swarms of "zombies" moving like giant tentacles of scarabs from "The Mummy"? Really?

I love it, first Zombie movie I might actually go see at a theater.

I hear it's already been hit by Chinese censorship.

One part that was common with the book was the plague originated in China. The Chinese government kept news about the zombie outbreak there suppressed, and that's how it spread out of control.

Well turns out the Chinese government didn't like that and want it taken out of the movie.

Also heard they're also flexing their censorship muscles on Iron Man 3.

Brooks treats every nation badly, not just the Chinese. Civil war in China and regime change. Yeah the China guys might be a tad wishy washy about WWZ. The Paks and Indians toss nukes at each other in the Z-apocalypse. US Chief of Staff to POTUS is a fool who dropped the ball. Russia does what Russian does which is throw manpower at the problem. The US military brass comes off very badly early on.

The story is truely savage as it should be.

You should put a spoilers alert at the start of your message, Matsuru.

Hoser

Read the book and will definitely see the movie. I love the 'zombie mounds' in the trailer.

But I think this belongs on the 'Modern Discussion' board more than the WWII Media one, even if they're both world wars, so to speak.

The zombies message board is automatically linked to the WWII boards, so no hope there…

SPOLIERS…
The mounds in the book are created by the dead walking slowly (cos they are walkers) towards infantry in napoleonic squares as they do a 'Zulu' on the hoards as they close in, the mounds in the film are much mire like the scarabs as seen in the Mummy (with Brendan Fraser) so are formed very differently, very CGI and not like the book, sadly.

Read the book but will go see anyway. I have no doubt that Hollywierd will do it's usual rape job of the book. I never have any high hopes about books to movies being done right. They never are. I just take the movies at face value. Come on, it has zombies in it. What more could you ask for.

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off on a tangent…

"Jaws" the movie was better than "Jaws" the book.

Ha ha tuscallosa, all that proves is that Holywood will do what the F it likes, and likely the opposite to what everyone would expect or wish for. I just hope with WWZ that they are doing s decent enough film as they have been doing enough advertising etc on it, sonhope to get their return on their investment.

It might be a bit like the film Outbreak with Dustin Hoffman, patient zero, find the monkey etc etc….

Read the book *instead* of the film. Book is a masterwork. Film, from the preview, anyway, is … well … rather the opposite.

Then curse Brooks for selling out by selling film rights to someone who would F it up, and Grade B entertaiment for bastardizing the book.

And yes, I think a film could have mirrored the book quite closely by simply filming each interview as one or more flashbacks.

As you might have guessed when Hollywood buys the rights/option on a book they can do anything they want with it. If they had wanted WWZ could be about alphabet soup and Brooks would have no say in it. Big names like Tom Clancy might retain some control but not usually. Hollywood buys the rights to some things and then never even make the movie. Its an odd industry but they do make a lot of money.

From what I gather from the trailer, the screen adaptation of WWZ is an action film with some family and political drama.

My vision of the screen adaptation for WWZ would be a political drama and character study with action scenes done as a series on a cable network, Hulu, or Netflix. The book is told in "episodes" so I think it would work fine.