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I haven't read the book so I can't comment on it from that aspect. But I can definitely say that nothing about this trailer made me want to stand within 100 yards of this movie. And from what little I do know of the book (Basically that it should run more like a Ken Burns doc, than a typical things blow up action flick), it looks like it completely abandons.
What do you guys think? I'm curious to hear what someone who has actually read the book thinks.
I don't even.
The book really is fascinating, little character stories, "best-of" moments from around the world in a zombie apocalypse, geopolitics, the lot of it. It's an anthology more than anything, it's a collection of vignettes about different people in different cultures reacting to the same thing worldwide.
And this appears to be 28 Days Later, with Brad Pitt.
Generally, I'm glad it's going this way. This means they can actually adapt the book one of these days and still make the movie about it, it's not gonna feel like a needless reboot, it'll feel like a different movie. I mean, shit, the title was used, but that's about it from the looks of it.
So setting aside all of that - I'm actually pretty down with this trailer, I'm definitely interested to see the movie. Maybe not in theaters, but certainly sooner or later.
It had to happen. From runnings zoombies, we now have co-ordinated (ant colony) zombies rendered in Massive.
Is there anybody who isn't sick of zombies/vampires? Ironic that the undead genre won't die.
On the plus side the opening of the trailer was shot in George Square in Glasgow.....
Normal version-
Hollywood version-
I could forgive them for going off-book, but not for those awful CGI zombie hordes running around.
I have no interest in seeing the film, I am going to read the book. By all accounts, I'd be better off.
Jimmy: I'm not sure I get what you're going after with that comparison. It looks like the same building to me, the Hollywood one is maybe a little darker and more contrasty...but that's about it.
Is there anybody who isn't sick of zombies/vampires? Ironic that the undead genre won't die.
It's not so much that I'm sick of zombies/vampires. I'm sick of the fact that everyone making movies seems to have the exact same idea of what a zombie/vampire is supposed to be. I really think there are all sorts of really cool things you can do with vampires and zombies (Vampires moreso, I think zombies have been explored pretty thoroughly) that hasn't been done, it's just nobody is bothering to do them.
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Jimmy: I'm not sure I get what you're going after with that comparison. It looks like the same building to me, the Hollywood one is maybe a little darker and more contrasty...but that's about it.
We don't have yellow cabs in Scotland......
Also, you will only see that building in the film, you won't get the Scottish statues and shit 
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I'd like to see an old-school zombie movie, sort of along the lines of The Serpent and the Rainbow.
Don Cheadle is an American who discovers a plantation in Haiti using slave labor. He gets poisoned by a zombie master. Semi-conscious but with an undetectable pulse and unable to move, he gets buried by the local doctor and later dug up by the zombie master. He gets dosed with a hallucinogen, hung on a cross, and his soul beaten out of him. He gets put to work on the plantation but ultimately shakes off the regular doses of drugs and leads a zombie uprising to kill the plantation owner and the zombie master.
Lots of machine guns, machetes, four-wheel-drive vehicles, and helicopter chases.
Naomie Harris features as the madam of a zombie brothel that includes Amanda Seyfried and Amber Heard as college girls who get kidnapped at the beginning. Kate Beckinsale is Cheadle's oversexed wife who goes down to try to retrieve his body. Michelle Rodriguez is a streetwise tough gal. The zombie master is Paul Reiser.
/flexible on the Reiser casting
EDIT: Sam Jackson?
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BigDamnArtist wrote:Jimmy: I'm not sure I get what you're going after with that comparison. It looks like the same building to me, the Hollywood one is maybe a little darker and more contrasty...but that's about it.
We don't have yellow cabs in Scotland......
Also, you will only see that building in the film, you won't get the Scottish statues and shit
Ah gotcha. Didn't know that about the yellow cabs, interesting. And I just kinda figured the hollywood one was just taken from a different angle where you couldn't see the statues or something as it's pretty clearly a behind the scenes shot type thing.
Anyways.
Just looking at the preview image for the video up there, I have to shake my head. The trailer really kinda makes it feel like the entire movie is designed to be a showpiece for massive. And the one shot with the bus tipping over just makes me cringe, it looks horrid.
EDIT: Watching the trailer again, I just had this image of the cloud monster from Lost. Except instead of being made of clouds...it's made of zombies. Watch the shot at 1:55 and tell me that ain't a cloud monster made of zombies.
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I think it looks like a complete pile of crap, and it's not surprising considering the production was a complete disaster: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/b … are-336422
Especially not surprising considering Marc Forester is at the helm, a guy who I almost single-handedly blame for the Quantum of Solace mess (seriously, after the awesome Casino Royale, this guy comes in, and replaces the great stunt team, gets rid of Daniel Kleinman for the title sequence, and tells everyone to make it more like Bourne, while making a 200 million dollar movie that looks like it cost a third of that).
After what's happened with World War Z, I wouldn't be surprised if Marc Forester gets blacklisted for awhile in Hollywood.
Honestly, will people care about a zombie film on such a massive scale? If the success of The Walking Dead is any indication, people like their zombies with grim character drama, not big 'splosions and movie stars.
Honestly, will people care about a zombie film on such a massive scale?
If by scale you mean, "How many zombie can we put in a giant pile?"....I hope not.
I definitely think there's a place for a zombie story that happens on a global scale (As the success of the novel, and hype for the movie shows I think). This is just so NOT the way to do it.
John Carpenter's Revolt of the Living Dead will have both scale and grim drama.
("John Carpenter" is the name of Don Cheadle's character. It's an homage.)
DoctorSubmarine wrote:Honestly, will people care about a zombie film on such a massive scale?
If by scale you mean, "How many zombie can we put in a giant pile?"....I hope not.
I definitely think there's a place for a zombie story that happens on a global scale (As the success of the novel, and hype for the movie shows I think). This is just so NOT the way to do it.
I totally agree. We won't know for sure until the movie comes out, but World War Z just looks so damn silly. I have a hunch that audiences will agree.
I laugh at Universal's misfortune. They have this thing which has gone a solid 50 mil overbudget at this point probably, 47 ronin which had the same thing happen and apparently went to hell, and that Gi Joe sequel they postponed a year after terrible test-screening results.
And to think that they passed on Del Toro's At the Mountains of Madness. Ya that wasn't a guaranteed hit, but at least they'd have had a good movie to talk about, and with Tom Cruise starring, I bet you it would've been a bigger hit than most of these will end up being.
Paramount's the studio doing this and GI Joe, but I can see what you mean. I imagine what's driving them is their loss of the Phase 2 Marvel movies. They need a couple of solid hits from other sources before the next Transformers and they can't really afford a John Carter type response to their tentpole releases - better to spend a little more than fall flat on your face is probably the thinking.
Zarban, when can you have a first draft ready?
The thing that's a shame about WWZ is J. Michael Straczynski wrote a couple of drafts that were really good and stayed close to the book.
The first act is your typical Zombie Outbreak with Brad Pitt's character getting a call telling him to get out of town then he buys the camper van like the family in the book then we fade to two years later and "Gerry" is asked to go around interviewing survivors and we see their stories.
If theres one good thing to come out of the movie is the new unabridged version of the audio book with different actors reading each chapter. Which will be great for listening to during a long rotoscoping session.
New audiobook? I'm sold!
For anyone who hasn't listened to it and/or you're on the fence about picking up the book, I highly recommend the audiobook. Definitely one of the best (and great to listen to whilst playing Dead Island 
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I'm down with this movie. The book was a really fresh and logical take on zombies. The movie looks like it has nothing to do with anything from the book, but I enjoy zombie anthills and things exploding and motorcycle cops getting crushed by garbage trucks and aircraft carriers and Brad Pitt's scarf.
- Branco
+1
Zarban, when can you have a first draft ready?
Like Hitchcock, the movie is already finished in my head. Like Michael Bay, it's loud and doesn't make a lot of sense.
New audiobook? I'm sold!
For anyone who hasn't listened to it and/or you're on the fence about picking up the book, I highly recommend the audiobook. Definitely one of the best (and great to listen to whilst playing Dead Island
Absolutely. I bought the audiobook mostly because I didn't think WWZ was going to be worth my time. First, wrong. Totally worth my time. Second, WWZ has one of the best readings I've ever heard.
Branco - I like those things too.
Its interesting how they pretty much abandoned the book and made whatever zombie movie they wanted.
I'm curious because I'm interested in seeing how they do a zombie full scale invasion. I don't like the look of the CGI zombies but I guess it was inevitable at this point. Bummed they veered so far from the source material because if they followed that they would have had plenty of amazing stuff for at least 3 movies.
Brad Pitt’s Battle to Make World War Z: Inside the Drama, Re-writes, and Reshoots.
Interesting Deadline article by a reviewer who's actually seen the flick and thought it was quite good... but speculates whether the bad buzz will take its toll...
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