Now Drew Goddard Is Brought In To Write A New Ending For WORLD WAR Z

Man this movie is gonna have a hard time getting back its money, reshooting just means a bigger budget and that just increases the chances of another box office bomb for Paramount, the next year isnt looking to good for them....

Wow. This film is in a whole mess of trouble.

The fact they are calling this World War Z is depressing. It no longer is anything like the book as far as synopsis goes.

@ ralfinader
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But the book is called World War Z...
What did you expect them to call it?
"An Oral History Of The Zombie War"?

Granted, I think Drew Goddard and Damon Lindelof are pretty decent writers, at least Paramount is pouring some serious dough into making this work. Why Marc Forster, though? The guy ruined Quantum of Solace. He has no idea what to do with big budget, big effect movies.

ha. forster is clearly not a hack. nor is he an action/tentpole director

Geez, this film is gonna be a mess! I suppose the ending from the book isn't going to be the ending they use in the film.

@ Moriarty117
But that's considered the biggest weakness of the movie, that it's too faithful.
CBM/Adaption elitists need to think about this.
Would you rather have a faithful movie, or a good movie?
I'd much prefer the latter. By that I basically mean as long as the movie is good, they can make whatever changes they deem or feel is necessary.

@CrimsonArk - Nope, I expected a movie that slightly resembled the book, at least. WWZ is one hell of a story to just ignore, like it sounds these people have.

I love the book and I really have no excitement for the film.

I don’t know why they had to turn it into a single character driven narrative, star power I guess. If it had been done right the film could have been a cross between Twilight Zone the Movie and the Poseidon Adventure. The lead character traveling the globe AFTER the war gathering firsthand accounts from the survivors with each account being a separate and self contained story each with an A or B list star to head the story. That would have been far more fun to watch than just Brad Pitt running around trying to find a “cure.” SPOILER: There ain’t one. Man has to take the planet back by force.

I hate that with the way the film’s narrative is set during the war and not after; we will lose the feeling of the book, the explanation of what the world has become and how it has so radically changed as a result of the war. The film just feels like a set up for the giant set piece that is The Battle of Yonkers, an event that in the book is exciting but pales in comparison the drama of the mountain pass in India, the Chinese submarine, the description of the near medieval warfare in Europe’s citizen fortified castles and ruins, the clearing of the catacombs and that first sortie east of the Rockies. Most of those wonderful moments are going to be lost if we are forced to follow only one man’s story through WWZ.

Goddard should do a better job than Lindelof. Cowboys and Aliens was a mess, yet I liked most of his work on Lost.

When I listened to the audio book, I would image that they were in a matrix type setting. two chairs in a large open area then as the story is told the background would begin to populate with what the story teller was telling. Like when Mark H is telling the battle part; I had in my head them sitting there with a tank and gunfire chaos in the background. As he told more about what was happening i would forget he was telling us a story and more visually see it happening. I can see how it would be a hard book to translate to screen but District 9 did a good job of making the movie more doc then film. Now it looks like they are just using the title and making Pitt the hero of a story which is nothing like the book.

Is Brads penis in this one?