[The Reaper]

World War Z’ Going In for Seven Weeks of Reshoots

Not a good sign at all.

[Ansceniiiic]

The movie won't be anything like the book, so my expectations have dropped massively.

[Major Tom]

I have been pessimistic since I read an interview where the director more or less said the film would be his and he couldn't care less about the Max Brooks version.

Maybe I am being a bit harsh but a direct quote is "We are doing our own film, telling our own story because we had to," he  said. "But trying to still include as much as we can from the book." I gather that his zombies will start out moving pretty much like humans that happen to be pissed off and, oh yeah, dead. Later they will start to resemble the Brooks/Romero zombies.

What bothers me more is that he has never done a film I particularly like and he has never done science fiction. I have not gotten any vibe that he is interested in the genre and he may well see the film as no more than a metaphor for some personal agenda.

Damn shame, we should be anticipating this film as the definitive zombie epic, but all we can really do is hope it is not a total bomb.

[leon the pig farmer]

Brad Pitt as their man from the UN who travels the world snuffing out Zombie epidemics....
Dreadful

Though, there may be some really good battle scenes in this movie.

Still everything in this genre is pretty dismal from computer games to movies.  The only folk that have gotten this right are Brooks, Kirkman, moore and Adlard plus the walking dead directors and writers, and a small host of other zombie horror writers/authors out there.  The latest  films are dire, go search netflix for the zombie movies and they are entirely 2nd rate or b movie bombs, and that goes for all of Romero's latest crap.
The only decent zombie movie out this decade was the 2004 dawn of the dead remake.

The only true way to present a zombie holocaust IS precisely how Kirkman and boys are presenting it, a tv series, hours long.  My only regret is that I watched episode one up until now.

Wouldnt it be truly sweet, to buy the entire series of the walking dead, unwatched and sit there for a few months and watch them back to back.  Awesome.

Sadly this WWZ movie will be 2 hours of Brad Pitt saving the world, a few battles, a shitty story line and at the end we will be left surely disappointed.

Major Tom, on 05 June 2012 - 03:25 AM, said:

I have been pessimistic since I read an interview where the director more or less said the film would be his and he couldn't care less about the Max Brooks version.

Maybe I am being a bit harsh but a direct quote is "We are doing our own film, telling our own story because we had to," he  said. "But trying to still include as much as we can from the book." I gather that his zombies will start out moving pretty much like humans that happen to be pissed off and, oh yeah, dead. Later they will start to resemble the Brooks/Romero zombies.

What bothers me more is that he has never done a film I particularly like and he has never done science fiction. I have not gotten any vibe that he is interested in the genre and he may well see the film as no more than a metaphor for some personal agenda.

Damn shame, we should be anticipating this film as the definitive zombie epic, but all we can really do is hope it is not a total bomb.

[Kat]

Bummer.  That does not bode well.