Footage Of World War Z Shambles Onto The Web

[Spambot 3000]

That just looks like had some sort of massive seizure.

 

[Doug]

Le sigh - The book was largely great, with a few minor flaws, but this doesn't look much like what was in the book.

So this is going to be another '28 Days/Weeks Later'?

There goes all my interest in the movie. I wanted a true blue zombie movie. Not some fast paced action movie.
You can add as many talented people as possible to a movie, but if the basic idea is flawed, then talented people do very little for my enjoyment.

Unless it's Liam Neeson.

Liam Neeson is, indeed, a god. As for the movie, I'm willing to wait until the release to pass judgement, but it does seems like they just took the name of the book as a movie title and then set fire to the book.

Edit: I can see why it's turned out like this. Hollywood looked at the book and thought "Not fast paced enough, add more action" and completely changed the plot, time it was set and the motivations of the main character to match what would appeal to the general population rather than make an interesting documentary/film that would only appeal to fans of the book (which there are quite a few by my reckoning). Basically, money. It's come down to how much they can make from as many people as possible when the film is released. Well so much for that, I'm pretty sure they have pissed of so many original WWZ fans (like myself) that they have shot themselves in the foot already. I would have loved to go see this when it was released in the cinema but now I'll probably wait until it's on Sky unless it gets really good write ups from Brooks fans.

I honestly think this was a bad move by Hollywood - true, action flicks get attention and the horde (of people, not zombies) into the cinema's, but if their's one other movie of that type on at the same time (i.e. Final Destination 10 or whatever), it'll flop. Having the documentary-type movie, or even just a story set in the same world, would have at least made it stand out from everything else; if done right, it could have been like "Inception" - a smart, unique angle movie that racked in the cash.

 

[Doug]

Let's hope that the producers (and the rest of the crew) see all of the negative reception and then change the film accordingly. Having said that, I suppose the film still has potential considering the directorial talents of Marc Foster, oh, and Brad Pitt's acting ability (let's not forget how fantastic his portrayal of Aldo Raine was in Inglourious Basterds).

True... I suppose my initial reaction of dispair was abit premuture - however, the shift in key details within the plot aren't good signs for the movie.

 

[cryogeist]

More zombies? Why more zonbies? The only thing thats rotting away and causing people to look on in horror is the severe lack of imagination and creativity in the modern entertainment industry

i dont think imagination matters anymore when you can make money off of it...

 

[Doclector]

Okay, this looks bad, but let's not be too hasty here.

Firstly, the plot. World war z was essentially a collection of short stories told through interviews. Whilst a killer premise for a book, it would be hard to translate it directly to screens. So, they go with a different plot, but it could still be good if it at least glimpses at the stories of the other characters in the book, though, I'd prefer more than "glimpses", and captures the realistic dread of max brooks' zack-filled universe.

And this footage. The zombie survival guide (which links in to world war z) mentions a period of convulsions in the infection process. Hopefully what we're seeing is a bite victim later down the line. He looks fast, but then again, we haven't seen him run. We just saw him go a couple of steps and start attacking the car door. Why the hell he did that, who knows, but still.

I'd also like to remind people this is but one take of one scene. Hopefully, shortly after the leaked footage was taken, the extra was told to slow down his performance.

Again, I'll admit things ain't looking good, but they ain't doomed either. Save the angry mobs for IF it actually is messed up.

Then we shall beseige the directors house dressed as zombies and see just how little he knows of max brooks.

 

[Thaluikhain]

So...it looks like some new zombie movie might suck, and/or be exactly the same as previous zombie movies?

There's a surprise.

Hell, even the Resident Evil movies got fed up with zombies and had to move onto super-zombies and Las Palgos (sp?) because normal zombies aren't remotely interesting anymore.

 

[Ligisttomten]

Yay, another olympic zombie sprinter movie. Sigh.

 

[Zhukov]

Fast zombies are better anyway.

 

[The_Emperor]

this does not look great, I don't see the obsession with running zombies, the whole point about zombies is that they are slow but unrelenting, a mass of creeping death

 

[Blunderboy]

Did they actually read the source material at all?
This was my problem with The Walking Dead.
I'm sure it will be a perfectly adequate film, but they've taken the name of something I love, and then seemingly changed so many aspects that it might as well be named something else.
I'm not saying that I hate it when they change things, and I can see why they would make most of them, but still, why bother buying the rights only to change it completely?
Oh yeah, money.
It?s a shame though, the book would make a great film if adapted faithfully.

 

[DTWolfwood]

running zombies are more terrifying than the original shambling ones.

with that said. they are fucked up by naming a movie after a property and not adhering to the plot at least.

 

[Outlaw Torn]

I never knew Zombies could have epileptic fits until I saw that video. From the looks of it, it's going to be a pretty crappy film regardless of what it is called and how many hollywood big hitters have their names slapped across the posters.

More people should make adaptations (good ones mind) of HP Lovecraft stories. The Call of Cthulhu silent film was amazing and zombies have been overdone so much that they deserve a break. Who wouldn't want to see a film based on The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath? Space cats from Saturn are way better than zombies.

 

[mitchell271]

they should change the title. this isn't World War Z

 

[SmugFrog]

That just looks like had some sort of massive seizure.

Am I the only one that thought that guy was running over to help him and drag him to safety? Then I guess he got "eated"? Hard to tell what was happening to him.

 

[Aptspire]

I think I'll stick with what has proven, so far, to be a faithful adaptation :O

 

[Frostbite3789]

So...it looks like some new zombie movie might suck, and/or be exactly the same as previous zombie movies?

There's a surprise.

Hell, even the Resident Evil movies got fed up with zombies and had to move onto super-zombies and Las Palgos (sp?) because normal zombies aren't remotely interesting anymore.

It's best not to reference the Resident Evil films for anything ever. Unless it's like a..."Movies that took a shit all over the original IP" competition. In which case this would fit perfectly.

"Hey, lets take the title to get the original fans, then name-drop a few people/locations from the original property, but change everything else! Because I, Mr. Director McTightass have a vision and can't have my vision tainted by such things as being 'faithful' to an established franchise."

 

[Aptspire]

Did they actually read the source material at all?
This was my problem with The Walking Dead.
I'm sure it will be a perfectly adequate film, but they've taken the name of something I love, and then seemingly changed so many aspects that it might as well be named something else.
I'm not saying that I hate it when they change things, and I can see why they would make most of them, but still, why bother buying the rights only to change it completely?
Oh yeah, money.
It?s a shame though, the book would make a great film if adapted faithfully.

You do realize that, apart from a few liberties (and episodes 5 and 6, which seemed to follow the overall theme of the graphic novels), we got something pretty close to the original story, in TWD, right?

 

[Blunderboy]

Did they actually read the source material at all?
This was my problem with The Walking Dead.
I'm sure it will be a perfectly adequate film, but they've taken the name of something I love, and then seemingly changed so many aspects that it might as well be named something else.
I'm not saying that I hate it when they change things, and I can see why they would make most of them, but still, why bother buying the rights only to change it completely?
Oh yeah, money.
It?s a shame though, the book would make a great film if adapted faithfully.

You do realize that, apart from a few liberties (and episodes 5 and 6, which seemed to follow the overall theme of the graphic novels), we got something pretty close to the original story, in TWD, right?

Yeah I do, as I say, it's just really those changes that put something of a dampener on it for me.
Whilst the overall tone was pretty similar, I'd say there were rather a lot of changes. As I said though, most of them made a lot of sense when moving from comic books to TV. In comic books it is easy to do a lot of dialogue, whereas in television it can be pretty boring.
But yeah, that was a fairly poor example, but I'm sure you got my drift.

 

[Daverson]

I'm surprised Max Brooks would sign off on something like this, considering how far removed from the source material it is...

Zombies appear to be incapable of running. The fastest have been observed to move at a rate of barely one step per 1.5 seconds

(Hell, he even goes on to bash Hollywood for changing the details of Zombies to make them "more frightening"!)

Of course, considering the way WWZ is written, I can't say I'm terrible surprised it's not a good adaption... it just doesn't tend towards a Hollywood feature. If it were something like a TV series, each episode focusing on one of the different chapters, that'd probably be the only way it could work...

 

[Fasckira]

I like Brad Pitt, and I haven't read the book

I lol'd.

Tbh Im all for directors taking their adaptations in different directions as this can sometimes work out for the best; a fresh take on an existing storyline can often bring more enjoyment while also slowing down on the amount of, "Bawww, but in the book...!" moments.

However this seems like someone has wanted to make a zombie film and decided to use the title of a popular cult book to help promote it. Ill still watch it however, if only to play "Spot the difference" in Glasgow (a hard task considering Glasgow on a normal day is filled with mindless morons attacking each other).