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

Most Popular Stories

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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The Great Wall trailer: Matt Damon goes to war with monsters

Posted 10 years ago

Matt Damon is making his long-awaited return to the Bourne franchise with this weekend's release of JASON BOURNE, so there could be no better time to drop the trailer for his upcoming period piece/action adventure/monster movie epic THE GREAT WALL....

World War Z 2 set for release on June 9, 2017

Posted 11 years ago

A $190 million production that famously brought in new writers during post to craft an entirely different third act which required seven weeks of additional shooting, the adaptation of Max Brook's novel WORLD WAR Z could have been a disaster...

Max Brooks’ zombie epic Extinction Parade headed to TV

Posted 12 years ago

Max Brooks has still got the zombie bug, and this time he’s spreading it to television. The WORLD WAR Z and “Zombie Survival Guide” author’s latest, the graphic novel EXTINCTION PARADE, is heading to the boob tube courtesy of Legendary...

Sony acquires the rights to Max Brooks’ The Harlem Hellfighters

Posted 12 years ago

So far, Max Brooks has one film adaptation tied to one of his books, 2013s WORLD WAR Z. I know many who love the book, but can’t say the same for the movie version. Brooks actually didn’t want to write...

Kill of the Day: World War Z (2013)

Posted 12 years ago

Just the other day I finally had a chance to tap WORLD WAR Z and Ive got to say, it was a bit better than I expected. Don’t get me wrong, the thing is far from great… but I had...

Max Brooks’ zombie vs vampire comic The Extinction Parade may be headed to television

Posted 13 years ago

Max Brooks wrote the great novel that served as the inspiration for WORLD WAR Z, a film that was good but not as great as it could have been. Next, he may be on his way to bringing a challenger...

Is Max Brooks’ vampires vs. zombies comic Extinction Parade coming to TV?

Posted 13 years ago

After the success of this years WORLD WAR Z, Max Brooks’ various zombie and now vampire comics and books have received a lot of extra-media attention and now it seems that one of them, the vamps-vs.-zombies series EXTINCTION PARADE, may...

Three new TV spots for World War Z changes the world you know

Posted 13 years ago

Paramount Pictures is trying hard to sell audiences on its upcoming adaptation of Max Brooks' WORLD WAR Z (even though I'm still can't wrap my head around why they're still avoiding using the word 'Zombie' to market this flick) and...

Max Brooks, author of World War Z, says film and his novel share title only

Posted 13 years ago

If you're a fan of Max Brooks' novel WORLD WAR Z and are excited about this summers mega-budgeted Brad Pitt-starring film of the same title that is supposedly based on Brooks' work, the author has some bad news for you....

New first look featurette for Marc Forster’s World War Z marches in

Posted 13 years ago

We’re just under two months away from seeing Marc Forster’s Brad Pitt-starring WORLD WAR Z invade theaters and to get you up to speed on things, we have a brand new EPK-styled first look featurette for the flick that includes...

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