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News coming out of ComiCon references a WORLD WAR Z movie.
News: WORLD WAR Z And A Pitt Full Of Zombies
It's been a long time coming, slowly shambling forth, but it looks like the film adaption of Max Brooks' seminal zombie opus World War Z will finally be calling "Action!". Coming from Brad Pitt's production company, Plan B Entertainment, breaking news from San Diego Comic-Con, via MTV, reports that the megastar is now also attached to play the lead.
Assuming the script is something near what I've already read, that would mean Pitt is basically playing Max Brooks. Also, with Pitt on board in a lead role it also means, thankfully, that the potential Gone With The Wind of zombie films will indeed be made. This is great news to yours truly, who found the Brooks novel (along with Robert Kirkman's insanely good The Walking Dead comics, currently lensing for AMC) the most invigorating and, ahem, lively entry into the beyond-overplayed zombie mythos since Romero's Day Of The Dead.
Apparently Brooks' other books, The Zombie Survival Guide, and The Zombie Survival Guide:Recorded Attacks have been optioned by Paramount as well. With all this action, Brooks may soon find himself the King Of The Zombies to a new generation of horror fans, if he isn't already. When I first saw Zombieland I actually couldn't stop thinking how the intro and title sequence seemed lifted from Brooks' instruction manual on how to make it through through a zombie uprising and stay alive.
Fucking BAWSS. For anybody that read the book, this should be the best zombie movie ever.
News: WORLD WAR Z And A Pitt Full Of Zombies
It's been a long time coming, slowly shambling forth, but it looks like the film adaption of Max Brooks' seminal zombie opus World War Z will finally be calling "Action!". Coming from Brad Pitt's production company, Plan B Entertainment, breaking news from San Diego Comic-Con, via MTV, reports that the megastar is now also attached to play the lead.
Assuming the script is something near what I've already read, that would mean Pitt is basically playing Max Brooks. Also, with Pitt on board in a lead role it also means, thankfully, that the potential Gone With The Wind of zombie films will indeed be made. This is great news to yours truly, who found the Brooks novel (along with Robert Kirkman's insanely good The Walking Dead comics, currently lensing for AMC) the most invigorating and, ahem, lively entry into the beyond-overplayed zombie mythos since Romero's Day Of The Dead.
Apparently Brooks' other books, The Zombie Survival Guide, and The Zombie Survival Guide:Recorded Attacks have been optioned by Paramount as well. With all this action, Brooks may soon find himself the King Of The Zombies to a new generation of horror fans, if he isn't already. When I first saw Zombieland I actually couldn't stop thinking how the intro and title sequence seemed lifted from Brooks' instruction manual on how to make it through through a zombie uprising and stay alive.
Fucking BAWSS. For anybody that read the book, this should be the best zombie movie ever.
