World War Z is a zombie novel written by Max Brooks. It is a great book and one of the best zombie stories ever written. I personally enjoyed it even more than the Walking Dead; comic and show. This summer, the movie adaptation starring Brad Pitt will be released. The film has had production problems, massive reshoots, and it's release date got changed. When the trailer was released, it showed a swarm of CGI zombies that more than a little resembled I Am Legend. Many fans of the book are now wondering, will this suck?
First, let me address the CGI zombies. I think that it could actually work well, if the movie is zombie action as opposed to zombie horror. Remember what James Cameron did with the Xenomorphs in Aliens. While in Alien, the monster was like a shark, stalking and killing people, Aliens made the monster more like a swarm of ants, thus the film had more action. If World War Z is a zombie action film, I will be fine with that. If it is more zombie horror, well, we got a problem.
This movie seems like it's striving to be the greatest zombie epic ever put on screen, just like the book was the greatest zombie epic ever put on page. From what I have seen, I believe it has the potential to be that. I think Brad Pitt will be great, and I really want to see humanity's all out war on the zombie plague.
And as for the running zombies, I'm fine with it. Again, if it is more of an action film, running zombies will benefit that. Maybe they will go the 28 Days Later route, and the zombies are actually just infected people. I have never really seen an all out battle between a huge zombie horde and the military, and I hope World War Z delivers that.
Finally, let me address the sequels. World War Z is supposed to be the first in a trilogy, and Brad Pitt says he wants to also adapt The Zombie Survival Guide and The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks. Will those be the other 2 films in the trilogy, or do they plan for World War Z to be it's own series, and Zombie Survival Guide starting its own series, with Recorded Attacks being the follow-up to that? Personally, I would want Survival Guide and Recorded Attacks to be the next two films, because the books form a sort of trilogy.
What do you guys think of World War Z? Are you excited, or nervous? Sound off below, and let me know!
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