Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Zombies Take Over

HAVE ZOMBIES OVERTAKEN Hollywood?

It seems that way, especially with television series “The Walking Dead” the toast of Tinseltown. How about the endless stream of undead movies – topped off with the tenderhearted “Warm Bodies,” a new twist of Shakespeare classic “Romeo and Juliet,” where a zombie gets a second chance at life with a kiss from a teenage girl.

Earlier this summer, megastar Brad Pitt and director Marc Forster (“Kite Runner” and “Quantum of Solace”) joined forces, entering the zombie fray with a new, epic blockbuster “World War Z.” It’s a loose adaptation of Max Brooks’ (son of filmmaker Mel Brooks) novel “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War.” The film abandoned much of a journalist’s episodic journey during a post-Zombie Apocalypse, as he tries to a piece together how the pandemic began and how it spread.

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