Comments on: ‘World War Z’ Movie News: Are You Okay with Changes to the Story?

By: J

Sun, 11 Mar 2012 19:57:42 +0000

I knew this would happen. Since the publication of WWZ suddenly there has been an influx of Zombie movies and a TV show.
Weird that isn’t it.
WWZ is probably the best book I have ever had the pleasure of reading in this genre and in Horror in general. Stephen King excluded.
It is a fantastic tale of human weakness and the way we can be fooled and lied to on a grand scale. There may not be much in the way of gore but your imagination can fill in the gaps easily.
I have had the misfortune of seeing stuff written on the plot and so on and to be honest Bard Pitt should be shot. How dare he do this and it is sad to say Max Brooks I am disappointed you let them do this to your masterpiece.
I will not be going out of my way to see it and I will discourage others from seeing it.

By: Javier Mendoza

Javier Mendoza — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 21:06:08 +0000

This is truly disapointing, narcisist and vision narrowed from the director’s perspective as well as from Pitt (his company is pulling the project), name this Movie “World War Z” is a mistake as they are doing with all good books, by messing with the perspective of the book is what is going to take this movie to a doom, plain and simple, because in the end what the book transmits is that those “monsters” exists and are not exactly the Zomibies in the book, but us… the humans. it gives a fresh view on old subject, because if you look at almost all the zombie movies, or disaster movies for that matter, there is always the hero, always the “stupid” girl in distress which is going to be rescued, in this case the hero in the book is the human spirit that all the survivors share as well as the villan (which is our own stupidity as human race) and since is a tale from the survivors perspective, you never get to read any real descriptions of the attrocities of the zombies, but how our own mistakes as human race lead us to almost lost the war and feel those attrocities. That is what for me makes this a great book, haven’t read a “horror” book so frightning yet so good in years.. what a way to ruin it doing a movie with that persepective, which is so typical of the weak minds in hollywood as long as it keeps their pockets full.

Marc Foster and Brad Pitt… Shame on you

By: WWZfan

WWZfan — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 22:54:57 +0000

I loved the book. Was excited about the movie. I agree, make your own zombie movie but don’t use the title of the book. It’s not World War Z.

By: Virtual Mistake

Virtual Mistake — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 17:27:55 +0000

I was really excited…like most fans of the book…when I heard they were making the movie but I knew they were going to mess it up. Is Brad Pitt such a narcissist that he has to be the hero of the movie? I wish Leonardo DiCaprio’s company had gotten the rights to make the movie instead.

By: Nick Sharps

Nick Sharps — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 21:49:09 +0000

Why? Why? Why? Why? What’s the freaking point of even making a World War Z movie if it’s not going to be World War Z? This should have been done as an indie project, mockumentary style.

By: Martin Evans

Martin Evans — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 15:58:31 +0000

I’ve read the first two drafts of the script and seen the YouTube footage of the fast zombies (Note that they’re faster than other fast zombies) so I consider myself pretty well informed on this subject.
World War Z is getting the same callous despicable Hollywood treatment that other books like Starship Troopers and I, Robot have gotten.
There’s nothing left of the book except the title. There’s battle scenes and Brad Pitt waving his manhood at the audience. and that’s about it.
The only way I will see this train wreck will be if I can kick Marc Forster squarely in the balls on my way into the theater.

By: Metaman

Metaman — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 07:37:05 +0000

Forster directed Quantum of Solace, a plot-free chase movie that killed Bond stone-dead. His take on WWZ will destroy the book. Now it’s about a guy caught between rescuing his girl and saving the world. The zombies look like they’re on Red Bull, or like they’re body-popping in a Jacko video. Forster contaminates everything he touches with his ‘vision’. Don’t see this film.

By: Preston

Preston — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 21:14:16 +0000

I think if they wanted to do a zombie movie that wasn’t World War Z, it would have been cheaper to not even bother licensing the title. The only good I see coming from this is that Max Brooks probably got a nice check from the studio.