The adaptation of Max Brooks’ excellent World War Z has undergone some changes. The Marc Forster directed film stars Brad Pitt who, instead of going around interviewing different people after the end of the Zombie War, travels around the world during the Zombie apocalypse trying to find out where it originated from.
Having a zombie film featuring an epic journey around the globe is a bit different from most others of that genre. It is just not like the book (although I have yet to see a script so it may still work).
One new piece of information may make or break the film. It appears that the this may be the beginning of a trilogy according to the LA Times.
“World War Z,” an adaptation of the Max Brooks globe-trotting horror novel and the most expensive zombie movie in the history of Hollywood.
“Like I said, I like mixing it up,” Pitt said with a chuckle during an October interview on the Budapest set of “World War Z.” “You need to make it interesting for yourself to make it interesting for other people.”
In “World War Z,” due in theaters right before next Christmas, Pitt will play a United Nations fact-finder and family man who desperately races around the globe to determine the origins of a zombie pandemic that has toppled civilization in short order. The film is directed by Marc Forster (“Finding Neverland,” “Quantum of Solace”) and is similar in spirit to September’s “Contagion” (from director Soderbergh and starring Damon) with its geo-political bent and the aspiration to deliver social messages amid the moans and screams.
For Pitt, the big sci-fi thriller also represents his strongest bid to have a big film franchise of his own, which might be viewed as the missing piece of his career jigsaw puzzle. Forster and Paramount Pictures each view “World War Z” as a trilogy that would have the grounded, gun-metal realism of, say, Damon’s Jason Bourne series tethered to the unsettling end-times vibe of AMC’s “The Walking Dead.”
Time will tell if audiences embrace that idea.
I am not sure how this would work. Maybe the first sees the zombie apocalypse begin, the second will be surviving during the bad times and the last one is humanity’s fight back.
Whatever it is there is a lot of scope to see all the cool bits from the book now that it could be three films.
The main question is will the first one make enough money to make any planned sequels feasible?
Do you think WWZ will be box office smash?
Source: JoBlo
