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.

I have no interest in seeing the film, I am going to read the book. By all accounts, I'd be better off.

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.

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.

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.

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