Max Brooks

Date of Birth

1972-05-22

Place of Birth

New York City, New York, USA

Known for

The Public Eye, To Be or Not to Be

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The Great Wall: Matt Damon knew Chinese creature feature was ‘a turkey’

Posted 5 years ago

I was surprised when I heard that Matt Damon had signed on to star in a movie like director Zhang Yimou's large-scale creature feature The Great Wall (watch it HERE) – and it sounds like that was a decision Damon...

Devolution movie lands James Ashcroft as director

Posted 5 years ago

Actor James Ashcroft recently made his feature directorial debut with the horror film Coming Home in the Dark, which had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival back in January. Netflix holds the distribution rights to Coming Home in...

World War Z – WTF Happened to This Horror Movie?! (Video)

Posted 6 years ago

An adaptation of a 2006 novel by Max Brooks that wasn't appreciated by many fans of the novel, Marc Forster's 2013 zombie movie WORLD WAR Z had an extremely troubled production, and we dig into some of those behind-the-scenes problems in...

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Legendary acquires the rights to Max Brooks’ Bigfoot novel Devolution!

Posted 6 years ago

THR reports that Max Brooks – author of the popular WORLD WAR Z novel (that became the basis for the blockbuster Brad Pitt film) – has sold the rights to his latest book DEVOLUTION: A FIRSTHAND ACCOUNT OF THE RAINIER SASQUATCH MASSACRE...

World War Z author Max Brooks and father Mel Brooks give coronavirus tips

Posted 6 years ago

Boy oh boy, where's a can of Perri-air when you really need one, right? Recently legendary comedian Mel Brooks and his son, Max Brooks, took to Twitter with a very important message for those in midst of combating the spread of...

World War Z author Max Brooks’ Bigfoot book Devolution up for pre-order

Posted 7 years ago

Seven years ago, it was announced that Lost / CHILD'S PLAY 3 director Jack Bender would be taking the helm of a movie titled DEVOLUTION, scripted by David Leslie Johnson (ORPHAN, THE CONJURING 2) and based on an idea by...

David Fincher is continuing to work on the World War Z sequel

Posted 9 years ago

It's been more than a year since we first heard that David Fincher was "in talks" to direct a sequel to the 2013 zombie blockbuster WORLD WAR Z, and all this time later they have somehow managed to keep Fincher...

Producer updates on World War Z 2, hopes Fincher will direct

Posted 9 years ago

It's already been almost four years since the release of WORLD WAR Z, a somewhat troubled movie that used the novel by Max Brooks as a source of inspiration but wasn't the adaptation many fans of the book would have...

David Fincher is creatively interested in directing World War Z 2

Posted 9 years ago

The current iteration of Paramount Pictures has turned out to be a confusing studio when it comes to their horror projects. After delaying the THE RING sequel RINGS for fifteen months, they were so disappointed with its $13 million opening...

Chinese monster movie The Great Wall is getting a graphic novel prequel

Posted 9 years ago

Opening this weekend in China is director Zhang Yimou's THE GREAT WALL, the "Matt Damon vs. monsters" movie that those of us in the United States will have to wait until February 17, 2017 to check out. Scripted by Carlo...

Matt Damon flick The Great Wall gets an epic Chinese trailer

Posted 10 years ago

The bonkers Matt Damon monster war flick THE GREAT WALL has just received a brand new international trailer that's about as long as the wall itself. This nine-minute epic preview is all in Chinese, but with a movie like this, do...

Matt Damon vs. monsters movie The Great Wall gets another trailer

Posted 10 years ago

Matt Damon vs. monsters. I can't say that's a match-up I ever expected to see, but that's what we're getting in director Zhang Yimou's THE GREAT WALL. As it turns out, when Damon decides to fight monsters he doesn't just take...

David Fincher is in talks to direct the World War Z sequel

Posted 10 years ago

Although a massive box office hit, the 2013 zombie epic WORLD WAR Z, which starred Brad Pitt and was loosely based on the novel by Max Brooks, wasn't exactly warmly embraced by the horror community. Because of this, there probably...

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