There’s a lot of fads that come and go in our beloved genre. In the past few years we’ve seen certain types of genre film explode: Slashers, Japanese remakes, torture porn, vampires and now we’ve got an ongoing cycle of ‘found footage’ flicks coming out. One sub-genre that never seems to go out of style is the zombie film. Hell when you’ve got Brad Pitt starring in a zombie movie, you know you’re doing something right.
I’m of course talking about Marc Forster’s WORLD WAR Z, which is based on the novel by Max Brooks. But you already knew that. What you didn’t know is that Brooks is really digging the fact that his novel is becoming a film. He recently visited the set of the film in Glasgow, Scotland and Daily Record wasted no time in catching up with the author and asking him about the film.
“I also had lunch with the zombies and they’re great. They look very much like what my impression would be of new zombies who had not really begun to rot, kind of like phase one zombies. … They have a zombie school, where they are teaching extras how to act like zombies, and from talking to people on set they have really put a lot of research into everything.”
To check out the whole interview with Brooks, who has nothing to do with the film but is just watching things unravel like all of us, pop right on over to Daily Record.
The end was near. Zombies were taking over. They were infiltrating every corner the world. No neutral ground existed, no nation was secure, and we were in serious danger of becoming extinct – overrun by hordes of the living dead.
WORLD WAR Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War is a recounting of these apocalyptic and horrifying years that will make sure we never forget how close we came to total annihilation. Told from the perspective of numerous survivors from all over the world, from Denver to South Africa, Sydney to Yonkers, Malibu to India, WORLD WAR Z captures the sacrifices and, toward the end, the ingenuity of our race to defend and save our cities, towns, and villages from a plague that seemed virtually impossible to stop.
WORLD WAR Z stars Brad Pitt, Mireille Enos (below), Elyes Gabel and James Badge Dale. It’s due to hit theaters just in time for Christmas next year on December 21, 2012.
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