World War Z (1 Viewer)

[iamsmilin]

Just finished the book. It'm glad to hear they the zombies aren't fast moving as the appear in th movie. The trailer does make it feel like the zombies are actively working together in the ramp up against the wall. Movie still looks horrible.

 

[Andy Dufresne]

This might be the biggest bomb ever.

Brad Pitt Forced To Reshoot 40 Minutes Of 'World War Z' To Fix Disastrous EndingVanity Fair/June 2013 issue

Screenwriter Damon Lindelof is known for writing epic stories such as "Prometheus," "Star Trek Into Darkness" and the acclaimed ABC TV series "Lost."So it's no surprise that Brad Pitt came to the successful writer/producer in search of advice for how to help his upcoming, troubled film "World War Z."

In a new interview with Vanity Fair, Lindelof reveals that "WWZ" has had to re-write and reshoot 40 minutes of the movie to find a coherent ending — and how the budget ballooned to around $200 million.

Lindelof tells Vanity Fair contributor Laura M. Holson that Pitt told him, explaining "W hen we started working on the script, a lot of that stuff had to fall away for the story to come together. We started shooting the thing before we locked down how it was going to end up, and it didn’t turn out the way we wanted it to."

The actor asked Lindelof to watch an early edit, and told him, “The thing we really need right now is someone who is not burdened by all the history that this thing is inheriting, who can see what we’ve got and tell us how to get to where we need to get.”

Pitt wasn't the only one who knew the ending needed fixing. Paramount executive Marc Evans watched the director’ s cut and told VF: “It was, like, Wow. The ending of our movie doesn’t work. I believed in that moment we needed to reshoot the movie.”

After viewing the film, Lindelof agreed the film's ending was abrupt and incoherent — and missing a huge chunk of footage.

“I said to them, 'There are two roads to go down here,'” Lindelof tells the mag. “Is there material that can be written to make that stuff work better? To have it make sense? To have it have emotional stakes? And plot logic and all that? And Road Two, which I think is the long-shot road, is that everything changes after Brad leaves Israel.”

Lindelof's suggestion meant getting rid of an already-shot, 12-minute Russian battle scene and shooting a completely different ending.

“I didn’t think anyone was going to say, ‘Let’s throw it out and try something else,’” Lindelof recalls. “So when I gave them those two roads and they sounded more interested in Road B”—which meant shooting an additional 30 to 40 minutes of the movie—“I was like, ‘To be honest with you, good luck selling that to Paramount. ’ ”

Hopefully Pitt's passion for the project will prevail. As Lindelof recalls of his initial meeting with the actor, “He took me through how excited he was when he read the book, what was exciting for him, the geopolitical aspect of it.”

The film will be distributed by Paramount, a unit of media conglomerate Viacom, which is majority owned by the private National Amusements, Inc.

Yikes!

 

[Thunderlips]

This might be the biggest bomb ever.

Brad Pitt Forced To Reshoot 40 Minutes Of 'World War Z' To Fix Disastrous EndingVanity Fair/June 2013 issue

Screenwriter Damon Lindelof is known for writing epic stories such as "Prometheus," "Star Trek Into Darkness" and the acclaimed ABC TV series "Lost."So it's no surprise that Brad Pitt came to the successful writer/producer in search of advice for how to help his upcoming, troubled film "World War Z."

In a new interview with Vanity Fair, Lindelof reveals that "WWZ" has had to re-write and reshoot 40 minutes of the movie to find a coherent ending — and how the budget ballooned to around $200 million.

Lindelof tells Vanity Fair contributor Laura M. Holson that Pitt told him, explaining "W hen we started working on the script, a lot of that stuff had to fall away for the story to come together. We started shooting the thing before we locked down how it was going to end up, and it didn’t turn out the way we wanted it to."

The actor asked Lindelof to watch an early edit, and told him, “The thing we really need right now is someone who is not burdened by all the history that this thing is inheriting, who can see what we’ve got and tell us how to get to where we need to get.”

Pitt wasn't the only one who knew the ending needed fixing. Paramount executive Marc Evans watched the director’ s cut and told VF: “It was, like, Wow. The ending of our movie doesn’t work. I believed in that moment we needed to reshoot the movie.”

After viewing the film, Lindelof agreed the film's ending was abrupt and incoherent — and missing a huge chunk of footage.

“I said to them, 'There are two roads to go down here,'” Lindelof tells the mag. “Is there material that can be written to make that stuff work better? To have it make sense? To have it have emotional stakes? And plot logic and all that? And Road Two, which I think is the long-shot road, is that everything changes after Brad leaves Israel.”

Lindelof's suggestion meant getting rid of an already-shot, 12-minute Russian battle scene and shooting a completely different ending.

“I didn’t think anyone was going to say, ‘Let’s throw it out and try something else,’” Lindelof recalls. “So when I gave them those two roads and they sounded more interested in Road B”—which meant shooting an additional 30 to 40 minutes of the movie—“I was like, ‘To be honest with you, good luck selling that to Paramount. ’ ”

Hopefully Pitt's passion for the project will prevail. As Lindelof recalls of his initial meeting with the actor, “He took me through how excited he was when he read the book, what was exciting for him, the geopolitical aspect of it.”

The film will be distributed by Paramount, a unit of media conglomerate Viacom, which is majority owned by the private National Amusements, Inc.

Yikes!

World War Z should have been HBO's response to the success of The Walking Dead. A nice 4 or 5 season telling of that story would have been awesome.

 

[Socrates11]

This might be the biggest bomb ever.

Brad Pitt Forced To Reshoot 40 Minutes Of 'World War Z' To Fix Disastrous EndingVanity Fair/June 2013 issue

Screenwriter Damon Lindelof is known for writing epic stories such as "Prometheus," "Star Trek Into Darkness" and the acclaimed ABC TV series "Lost."So it's no surprise that Brad Pitt came to the successful writer/producer in search of advice for how to help his upcoming, troubled film "World War Z."

In a new interview with Vanity Fair, Lindelof reveals that "WWZ" has had to re-write and reshoot 40 minutes of the movie to find a coherent ending — and how the budget ballooned to around $200 million.

Lindelof tells Vanity Fair contributor Laura M. Holson that Pitt told him, explaining "W hen we started working on the script, a lot of that stuff had to fall away for the story to come together. We started shooting the thing before we locked down how it was going to end up, and it didn’t turn out the way we wanted it to."

The actor asked Lindelof to watch an early edit, and told him, “The thing we really need right now is someone who is not burdened by all the history that this thing is inheriting, who can see what we’ve got and tell us how to get to where we need to get.”

Pitt wasn't the only one who knew the ending needed fixing. Paramount executive Marc Evans watched the director’ s cut and told VF: “It was, like, Wow. The ending of our movie doesn’t work. I believed in that moment we needed to reshoot the movie.”

After viewing the film, Lindelof agreed the film's ending was abrupt and incoherent — and missing a huge chunk of footage.

“I said to them, 'There are two roads to go down here,'” Lindelof tells the mag. “Is there material that can be written to make that stuff work better? To have it make sense? To have it have emotional stakes? And plot logic and all that? And Road Two, which I think is the long-shot road, is that everything changes after Brad leaves Israel.”

Lindelof's suggestion meant getting rid of an already-shot, 12-minute Russian battle scene and shooting a completely different ending.

“I didn’t think anyone was going to say, ‘Let’s throw it out and try something else,’” Lindelof recalls. “So when I gave them those two roads and they sounded more interested in Road B”—which meant shooting an additional 30 to 40 minutes of the movie—“I was like, ‘To be honest with you, good luck selling that to Paramount. ’ ”

Hopefully Pitt's passion for the project will prevail. As Lindelof recalls of his initial meeting with the actor, “He took me through how excited he was when he read the book, what was exciting for him, the geopolitical aspect of it.”

The film will be distributed by Paramount, a unit of media conglomerate Viacom, which is majority owned by the private National Amusements, Inc.

Yikes!

World War Z should have been HBO's response to the success of The Walking Dead. A nice 4 or 5 season telling of that story would have been awesome.

This.

I can't understand why, if Brad Pitt was such a fan of the book, he would totally mangle it they way he did. If you like the book, do the ####### book with minimal interference.

 

[badmojo1006]

This might be the biggest bomb ever.

Brad Pitt Forced To Reshoot 40 Minutes Of 'World War Z' To Fix Disastrous EndingVanity Fair/June 2013 issue

Screenwriter Damon Lindelof is known for writing epic stories such as "Prometheus," "Star Trek Into Darkness" and the acclaimed ABC TV series "Lost."So it's no surprise that Brad Pitt came to the successful writer/producer in search of advice for how to help his upcoming, troubled film "World War Z."

In a new interview with Vanity Fair, Lindelof reveals that "WWZ" has had to re-write and reshoot 40 minutes of the movie to find a coherent ending — and how the budget ballooned to around $200 million.

Lindelof tells Vanity Fair contributor Laura M. Holson that Pitt told him, explaining "W hen we started working on the script, a lot of that stuff had to fall away for the story to come together. We started shooting the thing before we locked down how it was going to end up, and it didn’t turn out the way we wanted it to."

The actor asked Lindelof to watch an early edit, and told him, “The thing we really need right now is someone who is not burdened by all the history that this thing is inheriting, who can see what we’ve got and tell us how to get to where we need to get.”

Pitt wasn't the only one who knew the ending needed fixing. Paramount executive Marc Evans watched the director’ s cut and told VF: “It was, like, Wow. The ending of our movie doesn’t work. I believed in that moment we needed to reshoot the movie.”

After viewing the film, Lindelof agreed the film's ending was abrupt and incoherent — and missing a huge chunk of footage.

“I said to them, 'There are two roads to go down here,'” Lindelof tells the mag. “Is there material that can be written to make that stuff work better? To have it make sense? To have it have emotional stakes? And plot logic and all that? And Road Two, which I think is the long-shot road, is that everything changes after Brad leaves Israel.”

Lindelof's suggestion meant getting rid of an already-shot, 12-minute Russian battle scene and shooting a completely different ending.

“I didn’t think anyone was going to say, ‘Let’s throw it out and try something else,’” Lindelof recalls. “So when I gave them those two roads and they sounded more interested in Road B”—which meant shooting an additional 30 to 40 minutes of the movie—“I was like, ‘To be honest with you, good luck selling that to Paramount. ’ ”

Hopefully Pitt's passion for the project will prevail. As Lindelof recalls of his initial meeting with the actor, “He took me through how excited he was when he read the book, what was exciting for him, the geopolitical aspect of it.”

The film will be distributed by Paramount, a unit of media conglomerate Viacom, which is majority owned by the private National Amusements, Inc.

Yikes!

World War Z should have been HBO's response to the success of The Walking Dead. A nice 4 or 5 season telling of that story would have been awesome.

This.

I can't understand why, if Brad Pitt was such a fan of the book, he would totally mangle it they way he did. If you like the book, do the ####### book with minimal interference.

Completely agree. I have been preaching this since the book came out.

But, now I am looking forward to the DVD with all the reset scenes (esp the Russian battle scene listed in the article)

 

[pantherclub]

This might be the biggest bomb ever.

Brad Pitt Forced To Reshoot 40 Minutes Of 'World War Z' To Fix Disastrous EndingVanity Fair/June 2013 issue

Screenwriter Damon Lindelof is known for writing epic stories such as "Prometheus," "Star Trek Into Darkness" and the acclaimed ABC TV series "Lost."So it's no surprise that Brad Pitt came to the successful writer/producer in search of advice for how to help his upcoming, troubled film "World War Z."

In a new interview with Vanity Fair, Lindelof reveals that "WWZ" has had to re-write and reshoot 40 minutes of the movie to find a coherent ending — and how the budget ballooned to around $200 million.

Lindelof tells Vanity Fair contributor Laura M. Holson that Pitt told him, explaining "W hen we started working on the script, a lot of that stuff had to fall away for the story to come together. We started shooting the thing before we locked down how it was going to end up, and it didn’t turn out the way we wanted it to."

The actor asked Lindelof to watch an early edit, and told him, “The thing we really need right now is someone who is not burdened by all the history that this thing is inheriting, who can see what we’ve got and tell us how to get to where we need to get.”

Pitt wasn't the only one who knew the ending needed fixing. Paramount executive Marc Evans watched the director’ s cut and told VF: “It was, like, Wow. The ending of our movie doesn’t work. I believed in that moment we needed to reshoot the movie.”

After viewing the film, Lindelof agreed the film's ending was abrupt and incoherent — and missing a huge chunk of footage.

“I said to them, 'There are two roads to go down here,'” Lindelof tells the mag. “Is there material that can be written to make that stuff work better? To have it make sense? To have it have emotional stakes? And plot logic and all that? And Road Two, which I think is the long-shot road, is that everything changes after Brad leaves Israel.”

Lindelof's suggestion meant getting rid of an already-shot, 12-minute Russian battle scene and shooting a completely different ending.

“I didn’t think anyone was going to say, ‘Let’s throw it out and try something else,’” Lindelof recalls. “So when I gave them those two roads and they sounded more interested in Road B”—which meant shooting an additional 30 to 40 minutes of the movie—“I was like, ‘To be honest with you, good luck selling that to Paramount. ’ ”

Hopefully Pitt's passion for the project will prevail. As Lindelof recalls of his initial meeting with the actor, “He took me through how excited he was when he read the book, what was exciting for him, the geopolitical aspect of it.”

The film will be distributed by Paramount, a unit of media conglomerate Viacom, which is majority owned by the private National Amusements, Inc.

Yikes!

zero percent chance this movie is even remotely watchable

 

[cstu]

This might be the biggest bomb ever.

Brad Pitt Forced To Reshoot 40 Minutes Of 'World War Z' To Fix Disastrous EndingVanity Fair/June 2013 issue

Screenwriter Damon Lindelof is known for writing epic stories such as "Prometheus," "Star Trek Into Darkness" and the acclaimed ABC TV series "Lost."So it's no surprise that Brad Pitt came to the successful writer/producer in search of advice for how to help his upcoming, troubled film "World War Z."

In a new interview with Vanity Fair, Lindelof reveals that "WWZ" has had to re-write and reshoot 40 minutes of the movie to find a coherent ending — and how the budget ballooned to around $200 million.

Lindelof tells Vanity Fair contributor Laura M. Holson that Pitt told him, explaining "W hen we started working on the script, a lot of that stuff had to fall away for the story to come together. We started shooting the thing before we locked down how it was going to end up, and it didn’t turn out the way we wanted it to."

The actor asked Lindelof to watch an early edit, and told him, “The thing we really need right now is someone who is not burdened by all the history that this thing is inheriting, who can see what we’ve got and tell us how to get to where we need to get.”

Pitt wasn't the only one who knew the ending needed fixing. Paramount executive Marc Evans watched the director’ s cut and told VF: “It was, like, Wow. The ending of our movie doesn’t work. I believed in that moment we needed to reshoot the movie.”

After viewing the film, Lindelof agreed the film's ending was abrupt and incoherent — and missing a huge chunk of footage.

“I said to them, 'There are two roads to go down here,'” Lindelof tells the mag. “Is there material that can be written to make that stuff work better? To have it make sense? To have it have emotional stakes? And plot logic and all that? And Road Two, which I think is the long-shot road, is that everything changes after Brad leaves Israel.”

Lindelof's suggestion meant getting rid of an already-shot, 12-minute Russian battle scene and shooting a completely different ending.

“I didn’t think anyone was going to say, ‘Let’s throw it out and try something else,’” Lindelof recalls. “So when I gave them those two roads and they sounded more interested in Road B”—which meant shooting an additional 30 to 40 minutes of the movie—“I was like, ‘To be honest with you, good luck selling that to Paramount. ’ ”

Hopefully Pitt's passion for the project will prevail. As Lindelof recalls of his initial meeting with the actor, “He took me through how excited he was when he read the book, what was exciting for him, the geopolitical aspect of it.”

The film will be distributed by Paramount, a unit of media conglomerate Viacom, which is majority owned by the private National Amusements, Inc.

Yikes!

World War Z should have been HBO's response to the success of The Walking Dead. A nice 4 or 5 season telling of that story would have been awesome.

This.

I can't understand why, if Brad Pitt was such a fan of the book, he would totally mangle it they way he did. If you like the book, do the ####### book with minimal interference.

Completely agree. I have been preaching this since the book came out.

But, now I am looking forward to the DVD with all the reset scenes (esp the Russian battle scene listed in the article)

It could have been done very well as a mini-series but it's practically impossible to put it in a two hour movie and expect it to be any good.

 

[Chaka]

A series would be interesting but since the stories are not connected by any characters I don't see why they couldn't make feature length films about most of the stories in the book.

 

[bigbottom]

This might be the biggest bomb ever.

Brad Pitt Forced To Reshoot 40 Minutes Of 'World War Z' To Fix Disastrous Ending



Vanity Fair/June 2013 issueScreenwriter Damon Lindelof is known for writing epic stories such as "Prometheus," "Star Trek Into Darkness" and the acclaimed ABC TV series "Lost."

So it's no surprise that Brad Pitt came to the successful writer/producer in search of advice for how to help his upcoming, troubled film "World War Z."

In a new interview with Vanity Fair, Lindelof reveals that "WWZ" has had to re-write and reshoot 40 minutes of the movie to find a coherent ending and how the budget ballooned to around $200 million.

Lindelof tells Vanity Fair contributor Laura M. Holson that Pitt told him, explaining "W hen we started working on the script, a lot of that stuff had to fall away for the story to come together. We started shooting the thing before we locked down how it was going to end up, and it didnt turn out the way we wanted it to."

The actor asked Lindelof to watch an early edit, and told him, The thing we really need right now is someone who is not burdened by all the history that this thing is inheriting, who can see what weve got and tell us how to get to where we need to get.

Pitt wasn't the only one who knew the ending needed fixing. Paramount executive Marc Evans watched the director s cut and told VF: It was, like, Wow. The ending of our movie doesnt work. I believed in that moment we needed to reshoot the movie.

After viewing the film, Lindelof agreed the film's ending was abrupt and incoherent and missing a huge chunk of footage.

I said to them, 'There are two roads to go down here,' Lindelof tells the mag. Is there material that can be written to make that stuff work better? To have it make sense? To have it have emotional stakes? And plot logic and all that? And Road Two, which I think is the long-shot road, is that everything changes after Brad leaves Israel.

Lindelof's suggestion meant getting rid of an already-shot, 12-minute Russian battle scene and shooting a completely different ending.

I didnt think anyone was going to say, Lets throw it out and try something else, Lindelof recalls. So when I gave them those two roads and they sounded more interested in Road Bwhich meant shooting an additional 30 to 40 minutes of the movieI was like, To be honest with you, good luck selling that to Paramount.  

Hopefully Pitt's passion for the project will prevail. As Lindelof recalls of his initial meeting with the actor, He took me through how excited he was when he read the book, what was exciting for him, the geopolitical aspect of it.

The film will be distributed by Paramount, a unit of media conglomerate Viacom, which is majority owned by the private National Amusements, Inc.

Yikes!

World War Z should have been HBO's response to the success of The Walking Dead. A nice 4 or 5 season telling of that story would have been awesome.

Heck, one season would have worked.

 

[Wyld Stallyns]

Very odd that they're even talking about those problems before the movie opens.

 

[Buckna]

"We started shooting the thing before we locked down how it was going to end up, and it didn’t turn out the way we wanted it to."

So they started shooting before the ending was even written, isn't that the universal sign that a movie is going to be awful?

 

[BustedKnuckles]

Straight to DVD

 

[simsarge]

There was a screening of this last night in Hoboken, NJ complete with a Brad Pitt appearance. Try as I might, this was a close as I could find to a review.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/05/23/we-have-seen-world-war-z

 

[snogger]

There was a screening of this last night in Hoboken, NJ complete with a Brad Pitt appearance. Try as I might, this was a close as I could find to a review.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/05/23/we-have-seen-world-war-z

Probably the biggest take away:

Not surprisingly, while the film is based on Max Brooks' novel, it deviates significantly from it. And that's fine, as long as fans of the WWZ tome understand that going in. This version of the tale is a Brad Pitt thriller that happens to be set in a world of zombies, one crafted around the star and his character. I've read the book and enjoyed it, but I enjoyed the movie in a different way altogether.

 

[pantherclub]

Why in the holy hell would they deviate that dramatically from the book?

 

[bigbottom]

Why in the holy hell would they deviate that dramatically from the book?

To make money. Call it the I, Robot effect.

 

[simsarge]

Why in the holy hell would they deviate that dramatically from the book?

Obviously $$ is the primary reason. As brought up a couple times already, the book's premise and multiple storylines probably wouldn't lend itself to both a big star's ego and studio's bankroll. It just seems odd that if Pitt was such a fanboy of the book that he would make a movie that was so completely different and name it WWZ. Why not make a big, huge zombie apocolypse with Pitt's star power to generate $$ to make a more true to the original.

 

[Andy Dufresne]

I didn't think the preview looked too bad.

 

[snogger]

I didn't think the preview looked too bad.

I don't think most in here are disagreeing that as a Zombie movie this looks like a great flick and I for one can't wait to see it

The issue most have is that it is named Word War Z when it deviates so much from the book.

 

[Chaka]

Probably the biggest take away:

I've read the book and enjoyed it, but I enjoyed the movie in a different way altogether.

Translation: This movie has nothing to do with World War Z.

 

[Chaka]

I didn't think the preview looked too bad.

Previews mean ####-nothing.

 

[Copeman]

Alot of people seem to have their mind made up about this movie already. Big surprise. We've been told this movie is very loosely based on the novel, so if you go into it expecting anything else, shame on you. I will go and enjoy it for what it is. I really don't give a rat's ### if it doesn't follow the novel. Not too many movies do. I'm just looking to be entertained by a movie of the genre I happen to enjoy.

 

[snogger]

Alot of people seem to have their mind made up about this movie already. Big surprise. We've been told this movie is very loosely based on the novel, so if you go into it expecting anything else, shame on you. I will go and enjoy it for what it is. I really don't give a rat's ### if it doesn't follow the novel. Not too many movies do. I'm just looking to be entertained by a movie of the genre I happen to enjoy.

 

[Usual21]

Alot of people seem to have their mind made up about this movie already. Big surprise. We've been told this movie is very loosely based on the novel, so if you go into it expecting anything else, shame on you. I will go and enjoy it for what it is. I really don't give a rat's ### if it doesn't follow the novel. Not too many movies do. I'm just looking to be entertained by a movie of the genre I happen to enjoy.

Exactly. And who's to say they can't revisit it in the future in a series on HBO. It's not out of the question.

 

[stbugs]

I didn't think the preview looked too bad.

I don't think most in here are disagreeing that as a Zombie movie this looks like a great flick and I for one can't wait to see it

The issue most have is that it is named Word War Z when it deviates so much from the book.

As a zombie movie, I think it looks awful. I might be wrong, but the nanobot swarm of zombies stacking up to scale buildings and down helicopters looks terrible. It may be an OK popcorn flick, but as a zombie movie, I thought the previews made it look bad.

 

[badmojo1006]

There is now an updated version of the AudioBook. Five additional hours with the likes of Simon Pegg, Henry Rollins, Nathan Fillion, Denise Crosby, Martin Scorsese and Jeri Ryan. Has the entire book now.

 

[FreeBaGeL]

There is now an updated version of the AudioBook. Five additional hours with the likes of Simon Pegg, Henry Rollins, Nathan Fillion, Denise Crosby, Martin Scorsese and Jeri Ryan. Has the entire book now.

Not so fast...

Apparently that's still some of the book material. Audible actually listed it as unabridged originally and people blew up the reviews. They then changed it to abridged and deleted all the negative reviews.

Regardless, we're still waiting on a complete version. This is just another abridged version that falsely put "complete" in the title.

 

[iamsmilin]

Alot of people seem to have their mind made up about this movie already. Big surprise. We've been told this movie is very loosely based on the novel, so if you go into it expecting anything else, shame on you. I will go and enjoy it for what it is. I really don't give a rat's ### if it doesn't follow the novel. Not too many movies do. I'm just looking to be entertained by a movie of the genre I happen to enjoy.

I actually hate zombie movies. They all feel and look the same. I would have gone to this movie because I actually enjoyed the book. I don't think it is ridiculous to expect a movie made around a book to follow the sequence or at least some of the scenes from the battles.

 

[simsarge]

There is now an updated version of the AudioBook. Five additional hours with the likes of Simon Pegg, Henry Rollins, Nathan Fillion, Denise Crosby, Martin Scorsese and Jeri Ryan. Has the entire book now.

Not so fast...

Apparently that's still missing a ton of the book material. Audible actually listed it as unabridged originally and people blew up the reviews. They then changed it to abridged and deleted all the negative reviews.

Regardless, we're still waiting on a complete version. This is just another abridged version that falsely put "complete" in the title.

Never read the book only listened to the Audiobook which I really liked. Is it possible the novel is a bridge too far for either a full cast production audiobook or a true-to-it's-source 2 hour movie?

 

[Andy Dufresne]

Reviews are mixed. Which is better than I thought they'd be.

And based on what's considered positive, I'm starting to think I might like this thing.

 

[Copeman]

Reviews are mixed. Which is better than I thought they'd be.

And based on what's considered positive, I'm starting to think I might like this thing.

Cliffs notes? I'm not a member of Zealots, don't really wanna sign up to read a review.

 

[Andy Dufresne]

Reviews are mixed. Which is better than I thought they'd be.

And based on what's considered positive, I'm starting to think I might like this thing.

Cliffs notes? I'm not a member of Zealots, don't really wanna sign up to read a review.

Not sure how that Copy/Paste failed so bad.

Here's what I was trying to link.

 

[flapgreen]

Never read the book, so I'm sure I'll love it.

 

[stbugs]

Reviews are mixed. Which is better than I thought they'd be.

And based on what's considered positive, I'm starting to think I might like this thing.

Cliffs notes? I'm not a member of Zealots, don't really wanna sign up to read a review.

Not sure how that Copy/Paste failed so bad. Here's what I was trying to link.

I might go see it after those reviews. Sounds like it is an action movie just based on a zombie apocalypse. I like end of the world/zombie movies/TV shows, so at first I thought it looked silly with the nanobot zombies. That said, you would have hoped that this movie would get good and not mixed reviews.

 

[shader]

Quite Ironic that they had trouble with the ENDING of the book and so they went to the writer of LOST!

 

[tommyboy]

Why in the holy hell would they deviate that dramatically from the book?

To make money. Call it the I, Robot effect.

Brad Pitt said he was interested in the geopolitical aspect of the story. Not necessarily the zombie aspect or action fwiw.Ughh. Hope its good. One of the few blockbusters I've been looking forward to

 

[joffer]

Getting some decent reviews

 

[matuski]

Just finished the book. It'm glad to hear they the zombies aren't fast moving as the appear in th movie. The trailer does make it feel like the zombies are actively working together in the ramp up against the wall. Movie still looks horrible.

They ramp up in the book... the Hope battle for one. It isn't "working together" so much as them climbing over each other to reach their objective.

 

[Worm]

I recently read the book and liked it a lot.

I'm also looking forward to the movie, with no expectations regarding the book.

 

[matuski]

I read the book last night.

I thought the first 80% of the book was great, but didn't feel like it was wrapped up well. Kinda just petered out over the last long bit.

 

[Worm]

I read the book last night.

I thought the first 80% of the book was great, but didn't feel like it was wrapped up well. Kinda just petered out over the last long bit.

I actually thought the book was too short, and could have included more details and stories about the various stages.

 

[Buddy Ball 2K3]

Getting some decent reviews

There’s nothing in World War Z that hasn’t already been in a Romero or Fulci film, or 28 Days Later for that matter. What you’re paying for is to experience a massive studio zombie flick, one that, while limitless in size, is forced to hold back on originality and extreme violence for the general public.

It’s really a treat to see Brad Pitt starring in something this risky and, even with the lackluster finale, World War Z still manages to deliver. If anything, horror fans should expect a mindless popcorn muncher jam-packed with incredible set pieces. - Bloody Disgusting

 

[Andy Dufresne]

Seems like the criticism boils down to "it's an action film and not a horror film".

 

[Worm]

Seems like the criticism boils down to "it's an action film and not a horror film".

And it's a movie based on a book, not a movie adaptation of a book.

 

[rascal]

Why in the holy hell would they deviate that dramatically from the book?

For the same reason Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns was never made into a feature film nor Tom Clancy's Red Storm Rising, two properties that have it's politics and political themes dated within them, despite being very well constructed stories.

World War Z, Max Brooks made the mistake of using a large portion of it as a social commentary and criticism of the Bush administration. Well, while World War Z bounced around in pre development, the administration changed. Hollywood now is generally "pro Obama" A film criticizing the administration, is going to generally infer the standing administration.

Could you remake The Hunt For Red October today? Sure you could. But a large portion of today's audience, you have to consider demographically a lot of young people have no life history regarding understanding the Cold War. And a lot of people who were in their prime earning years when THFRO was first released are no longer in desirable demographic categories.

From what I'm hearing, PItt and the World War Z production are trying to sell the general unused footage to Warner Brothers, in hopes that the Will Smith I Am Legend sequel pushes forward. DB Weiss, from Game Of Thrones, wrote several outlines for a possible sequel in 2008, and now that his standing in the industry has elevated, there is some renewed interest in a sequel. Also Will Smith's financial disappointment in After Earth means he might have go back into the sequel well to find a stable "hit" to rebalance his career. Smith is starring in A Winter's Tale, a fantasy film adapted from a novel, and then a film about Hurricane Katrina, if either one of those bomb, he could shift back to the sequel well, but I doubt we'd see Legend 2 prequel until about 2015. The early outline versions of Legend 2 call it "The Alamo meets Black Hawk Down meets Dawn Of the Dead"

Obviously haven't read the book, but didn't Will Smith die in I Am Legend?

 

[Worm]

Why in the holy hell would they deviate that dramatically from the book?

For the same reason Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns was never made into a feature film nor Tom Clancy's Red Storm Rising, two properties that have it's politics and political themes dated within them, despite being very well constructed stories.

World War Z, Max Brooks made the mistake of using a large portion of it as a social commentary and criticism of the Bush administration. Well, while World War Z bounced around in pre development, the administration changed. Hollywood now is generally "pro Obama" A film criticizing the administration, is going to generally infer the standing administration.

Could you remake The Hunt For Red October today? Sure you could. But a large portion of today's audience, you have to consider demographically a lot of young people have no life history regarding understanding the Cold War. And a lot of people who were in their prime earning years when THFRO was first released are no longer in desirable demographic categories.

From what I'm hearing, PItt and the World War Z production are trying to sell the general unused footage to Warner Brothers, in hopes that the Will Smith I Am Legend sequel pushes forward. DB Weiss, from Game Of Thrones, wrote several outlines for a possible sequel in 2008, and now that his standing in the industry has elevated, there is some renewed interest in a sequel. Also Will Smith's financial disappointment in After Earth means he might have go back into the sequel well to find a stable "hit" to rebalance his career. Smith is starring in A Winter's Tale, a fantasy film adapted from a novel, and then a film about Hurricane Katrina, if either one of those bomb, he could shift back to the sequel well, but I doubt we'd see Legend 2 prequel until about 2015. The early outline versions of Legend 2 call it "The Alamo meets Black Hawk Down meets Dawn Of the Dead"

Obviously haven't read the book, but didn't Will Smith die in I Am Legend?

I think there was an "alternate ending" in which he did not.

 

[Andy Dufresne]

Obviously haven't read the book, but didn't Will Smith die in I Am Legend?

I think there was an "alternate ending" in which he did not.

True

 

[Leeroy Jenkins]

This might be the biggest bomb ever.

Brad Pitt Forced To Reshoot 40 Minutes Of 'World War Z' To Fix Disastrous EndingVanity Fair/June 2013 issue

Screenwriter Damon Lindelof is known for writing epic stories such as "Prometheus," "Star Trek Into Darkness" and the acclaimed ABC TV series "Lost."So it's no surprise that Brad Pitt came to the successful writer/producer in search of advice for how to help his upcoming, troubled film "World War Z."

In a new interview with Vanity Fair, Lindelof reveals that "WWZ" has had to re-write and reshoot 40 minutes of the movie to find a coherent ending — and how the budget ballooned to around $200 million.

Lindelof tells Vanity Fair contributor Laura M. Holson that Pitt told him, explaining "W hen we started working on the script, a lot of that stuff had to fall away for the story to come together. We started shooting the thing before we locked down how it was going to end up, and it didn’t turn out the way we wanted it to."

The actor asked Lindelof to watch an early edit, and told him, “The thing we really need right now is someone who is not burdened by all the history that this thing is inheriting, who can see what we’ve got and tell us how to get to where we need to get.”

Pitt wasn't the only one who knew the ending needed fixing. Paramount executive Marc Evans watched the director’ s cut and told VF: “It was, like, Wow. The ending of our movie doesn’t work. I believed in that moment we needed to reshoot the movie.”

After viewing the film, Lindelof agreed the film's ending was abrupt and incoherent — and missing a huge chunk of footage.

“I said to them, 'There are two roads to go down here,'” Lindelof tells the mag. “Is there material that can be written to make that stuff work better? To have it make sense? To have it have emotional stakes? And plot logic and all that? And Road Two, which I think is the long-shot road, is that everything changes after Brad leaves Israel.”

Lindelof's suggestion meant getting rid of an already-shot, 12-minute Russian battle scene and shooting a completely different ending.

“I didn’t think anyone was going to say, ‘Let’s throw it out and try something else,’” Lindelof recalls. “So when I gave them those two roads and they sounded more interested in Road B”—which meant shooting an additional 30 to 40 minutes of the movie—“I was like, ‘To be honest with you, good luck selling that to Paramount. ’ ”

Hopefully Pitt's passion for the project will prevail. As Lindelof recalls of his initial meeting with the actor, “He took me through how excited he was when he read the book, what was exciting for him, the geopolitical aspect of it.”

The film will be distributed by Paramount, a unit of media conglomerate Viacom, which is majority owned by the private National Amusements, Inc.

Yikes!

After what Damon Lindelof did to Prometheus, how could anybody go to him for advice? The original script was so much better than what he did to it.

 

[Chaka]

I didn't really view anything about the book as a specific criticism of the Bush administration.

 

[Foosball God]

I didn't really view anything about the book as a specific criticism of the Bush administration.

Me either. It was more an accurate representation of what any current administration would do.