If you’ve read Max Brooks‘ zombie apocalypse masterpiece World War Z chances are you are practically peeing your pants with anticipation for the upcoming film. Unfortunately it looks like you might be doing the pee-pee dance a little bit longer. Marc Forster, the directorial name attached to the project told Migros Magazin that his adaptation of the book is going to have to wait. According to Forster, who’s other directing credits include Monster’s Ball and Quantum of Solace, the script needs a lot of work and he’s decided to move on to Disconnect in the mean time since it’s “ready to go”.
Is it just me or is anybody else thinking that they wouldn’t mind it if a new director who actually wanted to make the movie took over? World War Z was the zombie novel to end all zombie novels and I don’t think it needs Marc Forster and his shaky camera to be good. Find a director and let’s go, the world needs this movie before it’s too late. If there’s one thing I learnt from the novel it’s this, don’t put off what can be done today because tomorrow an animated corpse might try and pass the virus that has afflicted it on to you by biting your face off. So let’s see a sense of urgency here people. Get this movie made.
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his adaptation of the film is going to have to wait
i think you mean “his adaptation of the book is going…”
Thanks for the update though.
Missed that, thanks.
Mark Forster, not Foster.
Thanks, talk about a dumb mistake.
Well I guess thats alright, better and wait and have a good movie than to have it done quickly and have it fail. Unless you want to talk about Indiana Jones that one we waited for, for too long and look at what we got it’s like taking a bite into an Italian meatball and discovering that it was made of clay, what a let down.
I heard he’s trying to get them to make it into a campy action film. If he does I’ll have to order my voodoo zombies to attack him (if you got that ZSG reference congradulations your a nerd too)
What you said! Ever since Forster was announced to helm the film it seems like he’s been apathetic at the prospect of it. World War Z was a fantastic book and will be a film of epic proportions if it is translated to screen correctly. Is it too much for the fans of this book to ask for a director who actually gives a rat’s tail that he’s making this film? Seriously… if Forster doesn’t want it then give it to someone else who does; I’ll even take my chances on an indie director at this point. I realize it will take some time to make a film of this scale–that’ fine. But let’s at least get someone in there who’s actually excited about making the screen adaptation for the coolest zombie novel ever put to print.
Frankly I can not even start to fatom how you would turn this masterpiece novel in to a good movie.
The book contains so much side information, so much detail that you can not put it in a 2 hour box office movie and turning it into a campy gorefest would simply kill the atmosphere of the book without the possibility of reanimating it ever again.
It would be a far better idea to turn the novel into a series, genre revamped Battlestar Galactica. I think the structure of the book lends itself to this perfectly
some parts of the book dont need to be in a film adapt. they could easily fit all the major plots in a 2 hour, or if were lucky, a 2+ hour film.
focus on the initial outbreak and response, the great panic, the bungled attacks, then the redekker plan and victory and aftermath, no need for some of the side stories.
But it’s the sidestories that make the book! Granted not all of them but the key ones. The side stories included in the audio book are a good guideline…keep those in and the story writes itself.
I also don’t want to see this as a gorefest. Yeah, you’ll need some shots of the zombs but if it turns into 28 Days the movie will be crap.