Quote :

"I was very interested in Day by Day Armageddon until I read the sample chapter: http://tacticalunderground.us/JLBourne_website/assets/DbDAexcerpt.pdf Very far fetched stuff. I might still pick it up though "

Yeah thats the first chapter, it picks up very well the more you read. And I didn't find it far fetched at all (once you get passed zombies and all that ). In fact I was thinking while I was reading it that he did a lot of the stuff I would do in that situation. Though as I mentioned earlier, the second book (and from the sounds of it, the third book will be as well) was a bit out there.

7/16/2011 1:21:26 PM

What are some examples of "a bit out there"?

7/16/2011 2:05:19 PM

^
Mild spoilers below for Beyond Exile

For some reason, an unknown "military" has survived and is trying to wipe out the remainder of the US military and so gives the main character access to a UAV with targeting goggles so he can take out anything threatening to him.

Something dealing with aliens

And when the main character meets up with the main command of the US military at the end, since he has the most "experience" dealing with the zombies, they're sending him to Japan (I think, might have been China. You know how they all look the same over there ) to go after a cure

7/16/2011 2:50:51 PM

I dunno, what seemed far fetched was stuff like nailing the rubber band catapult on the first try, being able to kill zombies in certain situations, something with a Humvee...just a lot of coincidence and luck for my taste . I think I'll definitely read it though

7/16/2011 4:41:05 PM

I read the first book in that series, I just found it far fetched just how well prepared the main guy was. His house had like walls and gates and stuff around it and he happened to have a biosuit with night vision goggles and a gas mask, etc. Then they are out in the desert and just happened to find a nuclear silo.

[Edited on July 16, 2011 at 6:13 PM. Reason : ]

7/16/2011 6:12:56 PM

I found the fact that the living were coming back to life and attempting to devour the living too far-fetched, personally

7/16/2011 6:19:12 PM

Quote :

"I read the first book in that series, I just found it far fetched just how well prepared the main guy was. His house had like walls and gates and stuff around it and he happened to have a biosuit with night vision goggles and a gas mask, etc. Then they are out in the desert and just happened to find a nuclear silo. "

Thats why the story is about him. If it was about his average neighbor, the book would be about 12 pages long

But my dad has most of that stuff. Quite a few gun with a few thousand rounds, the NVG and an old bio suit and gas mask. Don't know if the NVG, suit and mask still work/are still good, but he has them. No walls or anything though.

7/16/2011 7:32:23 PM

Not a fan of these Zombie authors who just make it too easy and way too convenient for them to be super-survivalists. It makes it hard to identify with the protagonist and just isn't realistic enough for me.

7/16/2011 7:59:46 PM

I enjoyed Dad by Day but agree a lot of it was preposterous. The guy has solar cells and submarine batteries at his house, for Pete's sake. And the awesome impenetrable bunker full of food and supplies at the end. And -- what luck! -- he's a military pilot so he's good with guns and he can fly.

So while I liked the style and whatnot, I have to say I never felt any sympathy for the guy because he kept having insane luck.

7/16/2011 10:46:26 PM

cant wait

7/17/2011 10:15:06 PM

Quote :

"The story revolves around United Nations employee Gerry Lane (Pitt), who traverses the world in a race against time to stop the Zombie pandemic that is toppling armies and governments and threatening to decimate humanity itself. Enos plays Gerry’s wife Karen Lane; Kertesz is his comrade in arms, Segen. - Official Plot Description"

DO.

NOT.

WANT.

8/10/2011 6:28:48 PM

boo i was hoping it'd be in flashbacks. i guess it still could be. but yea, i have a feeling, no matter the movie, i'll be let down.

of course i'll be there on opening night though

8/10/2011 6:42:02 PM

^^ did this miss the whole "Oral History" part of the title? I really wanted flashbacks. How else can this one guy be exposed to all of these stories?

8/10/2011 8:16:40 PM

now featuring the inimitable Bryan Cranston, like almost every other movie in production.

8/10/2011 8:36:25 PM

Within the past year, I've read:

WWZ
Day By Day 1
Day by Day 2
Tooth and Nail
White Flag of the Dead 1
White Flag of the Dead 2
White Flag of the Dead 3
and am now reading Zombie Fallout

If I had to rank them, I'd do it like this:
Tooth and Nail
White Flag of the Dead 1
Day by Day 1
World War Z
White Flag 2 / 3
Day by Day 2

Some I've read in 24 hours, some have taken me a couple of weeks. Depends how much I'm feeling my Kindle. Zombie Fallout isn't bad at all so far, the writing is a little sophomoric though. Tooth and Nail is the only one that I *had* to finish and was up until like 2 AM.

Honestly, I know it's far-fetched, but I wish someone would write a full length book where the plot didn't revolve around some guy being a gun nut and oh-looky-here, now guns are really, really vital. You know, like the Wits path in Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis.

8/10/2011 9:32:34 PM

You cant make a flashback movie with any threat of death if you know the main character is always safe.

It just wont work.

It has to be real time. or close to it.

8/10/2011 9:36:42 PM

^ Saving Private Ryan, Titanic, Usual Suspects, 300

8/10/2011 9:45:46 PM

^^ I'm gonna disagree strongly. that's how the story is set up in the book and it worked just fine. It could work just as well in a movie. Why does there need to be a "threat of death" toward the main character? That's not even the concept behind WWZ. And the guy doing the interviews wasn't even in the mix of the stories.

There are countless movies that are set up so that you know the main character or the person telling the story is not going to die and they work well.

8/10/2011 11:23:44 PM

this zombie fetish is getting out of hand

8/10/2011 11:33:59 PM

so now they're turning this into a "Brad Pitt vs the whole world as zombies!" action flick?

God damn it.

8/11/2011 12:51:58 AM

http://www.slashfilm.com/world-war-z-plot-description-reveals-massive-change-book/

8/15/2011 8:46:44 PM

yeah the plot description was posted earlier.

But not released until December 2012? That seems like a really long time. I wasn't expecting it this year, but definitely before next December

8/15/2011 8:52:42 PM

They are probably just doing it for the whole end of the world thing on Dec 12 2012. Whatever, the movie is gonna blow now anyway.

[Edited on August 15, 2011 at 9:15 PM. Reason : ]

8/15/2011 9:15:02 PM

why? because its not gonna be two hours of some guy listening to other people tell stories?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2010235/Brad-Pitts-boys-cover-ears-explosive-visit-set-new-film-World-War-Z.html

[Edited on October 25, 2011 at 7:18 PM. Reason : .]

10/25/2011 7:04:13 PM

boo:

http://io9.com/5830389/world-war-z-movie-synopsis-is-nothing-like-the-book-internet-melts-down

also, thought this quote was funny after reading some of the TWD show thread:

Quote :

"The thing that made World War Z special — and the thing that makes The Walking Dead special, for that matter — is that it's not about the zombies, it's about the people. "

1/2/2012 4:05:22 PM

fuck the people, its all about zombies and how one would react to said zombies then thinking what would you do if you were in their shoes. You can have an epic zombie movie with one person as long as the setting and problems are pretty realistic like I am Legend was. Walking Dead is pretty bullshit, I just don't understand how people actually think its like the best tv show on the planet... its like fanatic bullshit love like apple faggots.

I really liked the world war z mini-stories but I donno how'd you pull them all together as a movie.

1/2/2012 4:25:17 PM

walking dead is hardly special, its barely watchable.

[Edited on January 2, 2012 at 7:42 PM. Reason : ^it is absolutely about the people, walking dead is just terrible at that]

[Edited on January 2, 2012 at 7:42 PM. Reason : zombie fiction that is]

1/2/2012 7:41:47 PM

as was discussed when this was released 4 months ago this shouldnt be a surprise to anyone. It would be almost impossible to make the movie follow the story closely. I'll refrain from judgement until at least a trailer comes out but what seperated wwz form other zombie fiction was the worldwide scope of the story. If they can keep that aspect it should still stand out.


heres some footage

http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Footage-From-World-War-Z-Has-People-Running-For-Their-Lives-26625.html

[Edited on January 2, 2012 at 8:02 PM. Reason : .]

1/2/2012 7:44:39 PM

hmm walking zombies vs running zombies

1/2/2012 9:42:23 PM

my hope for this point hinges on the notion that Brad Pitt mostly does decent to good movies, very few bad movies imo.

I still feel you can make a movie using the format of the book that would work just fine... It's been done many times. But a mini-series would be the best format for a faithful adaptation.

1/2/2012 10:05:14 PM

Ah, I see that they even messed up the zombies. Max Brooks is very much a promoter of slow zombies. Also it looks like it takes them only a few seconds to turn once infected. World War Z made it pretty clear that it would take hours at the bare minimum.

1/2/2012 10:59:47 PM

^ that's the stuff that really bothers me about this. How far from the source material do they have to get before they're just riding the coat-tails of the title? I'll wait until I see it to say one way or the other, but there's a point where you should just call it something else.

1/2/2012 11:04:51 PM

The changes are a little disappointing, but I don't think that they have to be damning. On the plus side, the movie will clearly still have the global feel -- I can't think of another zombie film that has that. As a consequence, it gives us the opportunity to meet a wide range of characters, as opposed to the normal collection of:

Protagonist (average Joe)
Good soldier (not necessarily military, but somebody who is more bad-ass)
Love interest
Closet nutcase for whom the zombies are an excuse to act crazy as shit

Also, we can still get to see the outbreak evolve. Most films that cover the panic and collapse portions do so very, very quickly (the newer Dawn of the Dead) or skip it altogether (28 Days Later), or -- to go back to the "global" thing -- focus on such a narrow area you don't even know if there is panicking and whatnot, or just a few unlucky people in a fucked up town (Night of the Living Dead).

None of this is to say the movie won't suck -- certainly it still can, and the more changes I hear, the more I'm worried it will. But at least there's still plenty of room for optimism.

1/2/2012 11:11:13 PM

Just read something on ign saying that the plan is for this to be a trilogy. I think I like that they're viewing it that way, not as worried about a lot of important stuff being skimmed over. Then again, it means years of waiting. and if the first doesn't do well, the others may not be made.

[Edited on January 4, 2012 at 1:09 PM. Reason : .]

1/4/2012 1:03:34 PM

I've not hear this about the trilogy business, although that would be very encouraging.

Can't imagine the first one doing poorly. The book's fan base may not be huge in movie audience terms, but the fan base for "zombies and explosions" remains pretty high, and Brad Pitt lends some serious credibility. Like a few people on here have said, he doesn't do many straight up bad movies.

And I don't mind years of waiting, either...hell, if all goes according to plan (for me and for the film), I'll be in some third world village when the first movie comes out, so no skin off my back. Though to be honest, I'm not at all above timing my first vacation to coincide with the 2012 release.

1/5/2012 8:34:27 PM

Here's a snippet about it. No clue how true it is, but I'm hoping it is.

http://www.avclub.com/articles/world-war-z-might-end-up-being-a-trilogy,67167/

This is where they got that info: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-en-brad-pitt-20120103,0,4537017.story ---- It's not exactly concrete.

[Edited on January 5, 2012 at 9:21 PM. Reason : .]

1/5/2012 9:17:56 PM

I would watch all three if it was Jason Borne styled zombie movies... how would they even do that? lol

1/5/2012 11:08:35 PM

I'm hoping it'll be a gritty dark zombie movie, closer to The Road than something like Walking Dead

1/5/2012 11:32:57 PM

indeed. I could use much less annoying characters and bitching; more actual surviving and suspense

1/6/2012 12:32:04 AM

http://www.slashfilm.com/uhoh-world-war-z-weeks-reshoots/

Needs 7 weeks of reshoots...apparently it sucks.

6/8/2012 5:50:41 PM

not very promising :-/

6/8/2012 6:14:40 PM

From Nighthawk

http://thefilmstage.com/news/watch-brad-pitt-and-an-army-of-zombies-in-first-footage-from-world-war-z/

Holy shit this is bad.

11/6/2012 1:22:08 PM

eh, dont think theres enough there to merit going that far. will reserve judgement for the full trailer

11/6/2012 1:29:59 PM

I don't see how the zombies can stay so aggressive. If one gets trampled, then you would assume that it's bones are breaking, and probably tearing muscle. After being trampled and crushed, it would just be a limp and harmless body. Also, they could have their skull crushed by the trampling herd. I have never seen or heard a zombie interpretation go to this kind of extreme super zombie. Shit, even the zombies climbing up that wall shows a level of motor skills beyond what a zombie 'should' be capable of doing. UNLESS the move goes all - fuck you - and creates a brand new genre of zombies, or they are not zombies at all, but rather just infected by a virus, similar to 28 days later. Fuck this movie for ruining what should and could have been a masterpiece, and damaging the name of one of my favorite books. I'll still go see it though

11/6/2012 1:43:30 PM

So super zombies that are more powerful than humans...great.

11/6/2012 1:45:42 PM

Not just super agile zombies, a literal flood of superzombies pouring down the streets and splashing up the walls of the fort...and somehow Brad Pitt is the only person in the world who can save humanity.

Unless Pitt is Rejorvik or w/e then this movie is going down the shitter quick

11/6/2012 2:00:11 PM

Yeah looks like they just took the title of the book and made their own story, which sucks.

Always thought this should be done like "Interview With a Vampire" or done as a series. Alas, another wasted opportunity.

11/6/2012 2:30:13 PM

I feel one reason so many people fell in love with WWZ was because how 'realistic' they made it feel. WWZ gave arguably the best interpretation of a zombie than any other attempt from other writings, shows, or movies. Max Brooks will be on suicide watch when this movie comes out.

11/6/2012 3:54:43 PM

wtf... movie looks like fail sauce made by people who had never actually read the book. I was hoping to see underwater zombie fighting in flooded sewers or the military campaign during winter when zombies are frozen, then slowly thaw out.

If anything, World War Z would have been better represented as a mini series like that of The Pacific with so many short stories of the book to represent the scope of everything that was going on at one time.

11/6/2012 4:22:06 PM

how fucking hard is it to not fuck something up that badly?

11/6/2012 4:39:50 PM