Bond Director Turns to 'World War Z'
Filed under: Horror
If you're a fan of horror and/or books, and you haven't checked out Max Brooks' World War Z yet, then here's another good excuse to go out and get a copy: The movie version seems to be moving full-steam ahead, and Variety informs us that Quantum of Solace director Marc Forster has been signed to head up WWZ. (The unpredictable director also helmed Monster's Ball, Finding Neverland, Stay, Stranger Than Fiction, and The Kite Runner.)The ever-busy J. Michael Straczynski is on adaptation duty, and the project will arrive by way of Plan B and Paramount Pictures. Forster says "the genre always fascinated me, and when they pitched it to me, it reminded me of the paranoid conspiracy films of the '70s like 'All the President's Men." Sounds goo to me. Ah yes, the plot: It's a historical document about the zombie apocalypse, ten years after the fact. Pretty cool, eh?
That's all wehave on this project so far, but the article does inform us that A) Forster is unlikely to return to the Bond franchise and B) Max Brooks is also the son of Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft. Which somehow makes his book even cooler. More on the World War Z movie as it comes in. Bet on it.
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11-14-2008 @ 11:29AM
Peter Hall said...
Been looking forward to this movie for a few years now. Didn't help when Moriarty at AICN went apeshit for Straczynski's script a year or so back...
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11-14-2008 @ 11:57AM
dtpollitt said...
Good. I hope he stays away from all things Bond related, cuz he really f-ed up QoS. Asshole.
Dan
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11-14-2008 @ 12:09PM
Clark Parker said...
Oh man, Scott... You have made my day
Just last week I was grilling Elisabeth for more information on this project and here you just stroll on in with some solid news that it's actually going forward.
I said it then and I'll repeat it now, I really cannot imagine a book (other the The Dark Tower, of course) that I'd want to see adapted into a film any more then this remarkable novel.
And Forster seems like a wholly capable Cat... He certainly likes to shift gears though, doesn't he?
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11-14-2008 @ 12:10PM
AJ Wiley said...
Man, I loved that book (though it seems like it would be better as an HBO mini-series or something along those lines). I like about half of Marc Forster's output, and dislike the other half. So I hope this is gonna be a Finding Neverland or a Stranger Than Fiction instead of a Monster's Ball.
And Max Brooks is Mel Brooks' son?! Holy shit. That actually DOES make his book even cooler.
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11-14-2008 @ 12:42PM
Joseph J. Finn said...
Okay, this is weird; I was just re-reading this last while shelving books, so I went back to the original adaptation post. Sadly, my idea of having a Studs Terkel cameo is now impossible.
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11-14-2008 @ 8:29PM
NvM said...
This is good news.
I thought it be cool as a completely serious mockumentary, but looking back a more Zodiac type deal is better suited.
Maybe make both? like Rain of Madness.
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