If there has been one Zombie movie that I have been itching to see, it is World War Z.
The bestselling book lays out a series of stories about surviving in a military scrambled world filled with zombies. Its not your typical “small town-eat brains” kind of thing. But it seems that the project stalled out as Parmount bought the rights and they were near expiring. But now it seems we are moving faster towards this project.
Dark Horizons quotes Max Brooks
“Paramount just renewed the option for World War Z, for half the time and twice the money, so that might signal interest” said Brooks in a recent interview with Fear.Net (via Sci-Fi TV. So where does it stand right now? “We still got our director, Marc Forster, who’s raring to go. Were all waiting on Matt Carnahan’s new draft, which should come in a month or so.”
So they doubled down the cash, and cut the rights time frame in half. That means they have doubled their financial risk, but have a shorter amount of time to make the film or risk losing the rights they just paid extra for!
This is good news for us, as Paramount is less likely to drop that kind of cash on a project TWICE and let it fade away.
probably the best book i ever read ( I LOVE ZOMBIES ). Man oh man my head rings with the stories in the book. The one story that sticks out is the lady who’s chopper is downed and she needs to make her way to the a certain place….the whole time she is talking on the radio with some other lady that you come to find out is in her head. Or the story of the Indian general that was super awesome…think his name was Singh…AWESOME!
Nice Spoiler, dude.
Seriously a good book. I am so excited for the movie adaptation. The story of the woman whose plane crashes in a zombie zone is my fav!
The greatest zombie novel ever! I hope Max Brooks have a like cameo.
It is a great book! I would love to see it adapted into a film. And I agree ramsey. There are soo many stories to choose from for a 120 minute film.
im actually reading this book as we seak. i just started it and it is a very interesting take on the zombie apocalypse. so far so good. i hope the film gives the book justice. i just see how hard it could be to adapt since there are so many stories. i cant wait.
I am so ready for the zombie apocalypse, are you?