Their slowness is exactly WHY the epidemic wound up so wide-spread. Max Brooks' zombies are the relentless type as opposed to the speed type.
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I plan on giving the movie a shot, but the very fact that the zombies were running tells me the writer didn't read World War Z. *Camera on Wainio* Yeah, and lemme tell ya, the word 'cluster' doesn't even begin to describe it *Cue flashback with voice-over* Wainio, you were among the troops assigned to Yonkers
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I expected the movie to basically be a series of flashbacks, since in the book you have the UN Inspector (or w/e his job was, I forget) talking to different survivors about their experiences during the war. He could always go the Stephen King route and remove his name from the film, as the King of Horror did with The Lawnmower Man. Movies are fundamentally different, and thus they'll never be exactly like the book. Still, Brooks' frustration is understandable, as it's beginning to sound like the movie bears no resemblance whatsoever to its source material. Which is solid advice, all you purists out there. If I'm asked I say: See the movie as a movie and judge it as a movie." And I'm in no position to tell people to see this movie or not see it. "I cannot guarantee that the movie will be the book that they love. Go make the movie you want to make and I'll see it when it comes out."Īs for fans of his novel, Brooks had this warning: My attitude is if you haven't invited me in to contribute, then fine.
That's what happens when you make a giant movie. "You're going to do rewrites and reshoots. "Why would I read this? This is not the movie you're going to make," Brooks said. The Huffington Post reports that Brooks gave nothing but low marks for the blockbuster starring Brad Pitt during an interview at Mansfield University in Pennsylvania, stating that the film only shares his book's title, "and that's it."Īdding insult to injury, Brooks claims the producers didn't approach him to look at the script until after filming already began.
Now we can add Max Brooks, author of the book World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War, to that prestigious list. Stephen King, Alan Moore, Anthony Burgess, Ken Kesey and a host of other writers have publicly slammed movies supposedly based on their work. Authors disliking film adaptations of their work is nothing new.
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