World War Z Movie is a Geek-gasm
Max Brooks’ World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War is one of my all-time favorite novels. It takes multiple firsthand accounts of the fictional [but inevitable] zombie war and strings them together into an incredibly fascinating narrative showing how a zombie invasion could [definitely will] devastate our society. The news that Brad Pitt was going to take a break from collecting babies with Angelina Jolie so that his production company, Plan B, could produce a movie based on the book was enough to cause me to shit myself with glee. But today we have more news from Variety via Ain’t It Cool.
First up is the news that the movie will be written by one of our favorite comic authors J. Michael Straczynski. In addition to penning a few of the best comics runs of the last several years (Silver Surfer: Requiem, The Twelve), Straczynski has also written for awesome TV shows like He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, The Real Ghostbusters, Babylon 5, and films such as The Changeling. Having someone of Straczynski’s skill writing the script for World War Z is definitely cause for excitement.
Today, director Marc Forster announced that he will be sitting behind the camera for the film. Unfamiliar with his work? Forster’s latest film released today: Quantum of Solace. Forster has also directed such films as Stranger Than Fiction and Finding Neverland.
This is shaping up quite well indeed and, zombie nuts that we are, we’ll be posting updates about World War Z as we stumble upon them. In the meantime, hit the above link and pick up the book if you haven’t already. It really is a fantastic read.
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Tags: brad pitt, j. michael straczynski, marc forster, max brooks, plan b, world war z
November 16th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
Ive read Max Brook’s OTHER zombie book, The Zombie Survival Guide, and i loved it.
If this is anything remotely close to be as funny and surprisingly realistic as the Survival Guide, Ill be picking this up.
I every once in a while see it in my local comic shop, but have yet to actually pick it up and look at it closer.
BRAINSsssss!
November 16th, 2008 at 7:15 pm
Remember the last bit of the Zombie Survival Guide with all the accounts from “survivors”? WWZ is that on a much larger scale. It’s really, really good. You should definitely check it out.
November 18th, 2008 at 2:21 am
Yeah, what John said. I found the ‘survivor encounters’ section of the Zombie Survival Guide the most absorbing part of that book, WWZ is even better!
I’m interested to see how they will interpret WWZ as a movie. A WW2 history channel style mocumentary would be pretty cool. Some of the individual stories in WWZ I found quite emotional, I’ll be happy if they can capture some of that.
Please go to bed children, L4D has been unlocked (stupid timezone!!).