Hollywood Goes for another Zombie Movie

 

Hearing the news that someone is making a movie about one of your favorite books can cause mixed feelings.
“I know it will be great!” or “I know they will mess it up.”

I had high expectations for “World War Z” (2013).

“World War Z”, by Max Brooks, read like a journalist’s account of a zombie apocalypse. The journalist interviewed many survivors from different countries about how they survived.

I thought the obvious choice would be to make a documentary-style movie, similar to “Cloverfield.”

Instead, the movie producers made another regular zombie movie and glanced over interesting details Brooks created in the book.

It’s interesting to think about zombies freezing in subzero temperatures, then reading about characters migrating north and battling hunger.

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