World War Z film is going to be a generic zombie action thriller, Internet ragefaces - Polidicks

[URL="http://io9.com/5830389/world-war-z-movie-synopsis-is-nothing-like-the-book-internet-melts-down/"]souce[/URL] [quote] Remember when the [I]World War Z[/I] movie held such promise? Now, not so much. Paramount has released the synopsis for its film adaptation of Max Brooks' seminal zombie war story, and people are not happy about the massive deviations. The internet is rising up like a last-ditch offensive to stop a zombie army. Read the collected rants below. Here's the official synopsis from Paramount: [I]"The story revolves around United Nations employee Gerry Lane (Pitt), who traverses the world in a race against time to stop the Zombie pandemic that is toppling armies and governments and threatening to decimate humanity itself."[/I] As you can see, rather than taking place after the bloody Zombie Wars, this movie will be set during the beginning of the outbreak. And Pitt will be running around to try and stop it. So basically, it's every zombie movie ever made that no one saw. It sounds like this adaptation won't even be a shadow of the original novel. The synopsis reads like the producers cherry-picked a few battles and then wove them together around Pitt's character. This is disheartening, to say the least, and we're not alone in our disappointment. Plenty of folks feel the same way, and here's why they're pissed: [URL="http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/news/world-war-z-no-longer-sounds-like-world-war-z.php"]Film School Rejects[/URL] thinks it's all just a damn shame. [I]f you're going to get fans of the book excited, only to take away what makes the book unique, what's the point? To make a movie In Name Only that uses the title as a hook to get people into the theater before switching your bait? Why does the adaptation formula seem to be: 1. Find something people like. 2. Option it. 3. Change that thing people like. Now, instead of a slam dunk, [Director Marc] Forster and company will now have to convince fans that this is worth checking out (and not just another zombie movie to add to the pile). That's a shame.[/I] [URL="http://www.toplessrobot.com/2011/08/and_speaking_of_crushingly_disappointing_zombie_en.php"]Topless Robot[/URL] was less than thrilled: [I]God damn it. The thing that made World War Z special — and the thing that makes The Walking Dead special, for that matter — is that it's not about the zombies, it's about the people. WWZ makes it a global history, where we get to see how a zombie invasion shaped society in general and various places in specific. It's not about one soldier who trots the goddamned globe fighting zombies. That's just another goddamned regular zombie movie, albeit one with a broader scope. Is it really that hard for Hollywood to wrap their heads around a zombie story that isn't a shitty action-horror film?[/I] [URL="http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/25809"]Bloody Disgusting's[/URL] headline sounded a bit disappointed, and almost a little sad: [I]World War Z' Might Not Be What We Hoped For[/I] [URL="http://screenrant.com/world-war-z-movie-book-differences-discussion-kofi-127543/"]Screen Rant[/URL] attempted to calm the masses asking why we were even surprised, this isn't new in Hollywood, but not before slipping this little zinger in: [I]Brooks' book explored – among other things – how the world would or wouldn't be able to cope with a massive disaster like a zombie apocalypse. The sci-fi/horror premise was a great allegorical frame for a lot of relevant political, social and moral questions. This movie is basically your tried-and-true (and often failed) race-against-time action/thriller. You probably wouldn't even bat an eye if [they] were to lie and say that Roland Emmerich was directing.[/I] But probably the best rant against Marc Forster and his shallow of an adaptation of an Oral History of the Zombie War is from [URL="http://www.movies.com/movie-news/world-war-z-movie/3869"]Peter Hall at Movies.com[/URL]: [I]Paramount's World War Z is not Max Brooks' World War Z. As anyone who has read (and no doubt subsequently fallen in love with) the latter, it's about an agent of the UN's Postwar Commission who goes around the world to interview survivors of the zombie apocalypse in order to understand exactly how it happened. He's just a researcher trying to unearth facts that the UN might not want to get out whilst making sense of this big, bloody, global brain-eating mess. He is NOT an employee "in a race against time to stop the Zombie pandemic." He's not even a little bit of that. Not even a fraction.[/I] But what do you all think? It is pretty early in the game for the film, plus who knows who writes the synopsis for movies (that are still filming). Perhaps it's all just one giant misunderstanding, or perhaps [I]WWZ[/I] the movie will surprised us all. Can this movie be saved? Is it even a [I]World War Z[/I] movie anymore? [/quote] While this is disappointing, I myself am praying that there will be no running zombies. They're not scary and they're overused as fuck. You don't need to make loud noises and be super fast to be scary. And of course there's the simple fact that there [I]are no sprinters in World War Z. [/I]But hey, Hollywood has to cater to the short attention span of movie audiences somehow. To those who have no idea about anything and think [I]why are people whining about this, I mean it can still be a good movie. [/I]Maybe, but why was World War Z so popular? Not because it was a generic zombie book about a group of survivors fighting their way through hordes of ghouls, but it took place [I]after [/I]the war, and it was on a grand, international scale, not on some rural town in Pennsylvania. The appeal was the stories and emotions of those who survived, not hack-and-slash zombie action. Honestly it's a real damn shame. Even if it's another generic zombie thriller with sprinting zombies that cater to those with significantly retarded attention spans, I'm still going to watch it, if only because the prospect of watching Israeli and Palestinian forces fighting alongside each other is interesting.

Meh it'll either do really well or terribly. From the sound of it it's going to be the same few zombie movies we get every year except this time it's got stars like Brad Pitt. Should have gotten a little more adventurous with a big movie budget and big movie cast.

Who the fuck cares, it's zombies in it.

I might end up liking the movie more than the book anyway.

[QUOTE=Sexy Eskimo;31736183]Who the fuck cares, it's zombies in it.[/QUOTE] i care, i like an original good movie that is worth my goddamn money

[QUOTE=Sexy Eskimo;31736183]Who the fuck cares[/QUOTE] [I]A lot.[/I]

This is disappointing. I'd love to see a World War Z miniseries that stays true to the book, that would be the best retelling of it.

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31g0YE61PLQ[/media] God dammit.

Can't Hollywood get any fucking book right into film?

[QUOTE=Sexy Eskimo;31736183]Who the fuck cares, it's zombies in it.[/QUOTE] You know, Resident Evil 5 had zombies in it. Best game EVER /sarcasm

[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;31736331]Can't Hollywood get any fucking book right into film?[/QUOTE] They have to appeal to the broadest market, which means removing some "confusing" elements.

They're filming this for the next week or so in Glasgow (my hometown) I'm in the city centre tomorrow, gonna go check it out. They're filming 2 car crashes so it could be cool.

[QUOTE=Binladen34;31736340]You know, Resident Evil 5 had zombies in it. Best game EVER /sarcasm[/QUOTE] It's definitely different in terms of direction from all the previous Resident Evil but it wasn't bad, I had fun playing the full campaign in with my brother, and i enjoyed playing mercenaries mode with him as well. it doesn't have a lasting appeal after that though.

woah i waz first person 2 rate and not read 2 lmao But honestly, I wish they wouldn't even make a movie out of it now at all. No adaption is better than having whatever this will turn out to be.. That's assuming it will be bad, and I think it will.

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufsf_-a_H9Q&feature=channel_video_title[/media]

I'd see it because I love zombie action thrillers if they're good. Plus I haven't read the book so I don't really have any attachment to the title.

They hand you an original piece of work about a pop-culture monster along with an already reliable fan-base and they go and completely change the story. Welp.

Cry more. This is just how things are with movies.

In another thread about this movie I said "Better not fuck this up Hollywood..." sorry for jinxing it guys :(

:( That is all I need to express my opinion....

"hey guys we could make an original zombie movie based on this book:v:!!!" "ok but lets take all the good parts out and add pew pew pew pew booom explosion :downs:"

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[QUOTE=scotland1;31736621]Cry more. This is just how things are with movies.[/QUOTE] Watchmen didn't fuck up the movie, it did fine.

[QUOTE=YouWithTheFace.;31736827]"hey guys we could make an original zombie movie based on this book:v:!!!" "ok but lets take all the good parts out and add pew pew pew pew booom explosion :downs:"[/QUOTE] It's funny because I would've thought that Hollywood would have been satisfied by the shear amount of violence and explosions in the book.

[QUOTE=JLea;31736380]They have to appeal to the broadest market, which means removing some "confusing" elements.[/QUOTE] Ergo why we can never have a zombie movie that doesn't have a focus on hack-and-slash. Honestly this sounds like a cross between the Bourne Conspiracy and Zombieland. Which, truth be told, isn't a very good combo. [QUOTE=Scotchair;31736413]They're filming this for the next week or so in Glasgow (my hometown) I'm in the city centre tomorrow, gonna go check it out. They're filming 2 car crashes so it could be cool.[/QUOTE] Makes me wonder how heavily they're going to rely on CGI to represent massive numbers of zombies. I heard in some article that they're gathering people in the [I]tens of thousands.[/I] [QUOTE=Billiam;31736909]It's funny because I would've thought that Hollywood would have been satisfied by the shear amount of violence and explosions in the book.[/QUOTE] To be fair, I can't wait to see Yonkers on-screen.

It's movies like this that make glad no one is making movies about Raptor Red, Bones of the Earth or Cretaceous Dawn. Would be heartbroken if someone destroyed those books like they're going to do to World War Z.

[QUOTE=RR_Raptor65;31737031]It's movies like this that make glad no one is making movies about [B]Raptor Red,[/B] Bones of the Earth or Cretaceous Dawn. Would be heartbroken if someone destroyed those books like they're going to do to World War Z.[/QUOTE] I can almost guarantee the raptors will probably have inner monologue...ie [I]voices[/I]. Either that or some fruity British narrator is going to...well, narrate every goddamn action they take. The only way a Raptor Red movie adaption would go well is if there was absolutely no dialogue at all. Hence why it wouldn't make a good movie. But hey, Hollywood is Hollywood, they can pull anything out of their ass.

I just died a little on the inside.

[QUOTE=LunchboxOfDoom;31736472] [/QUOTE] I'm sorry, but the huge ffff- section really fucking annoys me. Every time I see this it makes me rage on it's own. [editline]14th August 2011[/editline] Also, something tells me some people are a bit too dumb to understand the movie if it were to take the direction of the book.

[QUOTE=LiquidNazgul;31736961]To be fair, I can't wait to see Yonkers on-screen.[/QUOTE] Not trying to be negative, but they're probably going to have something where the humans win and there will be some generic voice over saying something like "The first win of the war" and fade to credits.