Might actually be entertaining, if you could get past the “Z” part. Has the potential to make Walking Dead look like 1st Grade Recess.
The book is awesome. I hope the movie can at least keep up.
Isn’t Costa involved in this or is that something else?
Something else.
The movie will be nothing like the book. The book was great, the movie will be Brad Pitt flying around the world saving it from zombies - which wasn’t what happened in the book. If you are typical American (i.e. moron) you will love this movie because it will follow the typical Hollywood formula that you have been trained to enjoy. Think the movie “2012” with zombies.
IIRC, in the book the zombies were slow. So far in the trailers released of the film adaption they move with great speed.
Worst zombies to face imo… 
I thought the book as “ok” but I don’t see it translating to the big screen as well. Also, I agree that Brad Pitt saving the world wasn’t in the book and the deviation is too much.
I would actually be interested to see the books from J.L Bourne turned into movies or a mini series. That could be interesting.
Book was very good, too bad Hollywierd will fuck it up, probably abandon seeing movies in the future all together. 
But this is always the case. In every instance where I’ve read the book, then seen the movie, there has always been a level of disappointment in that either: 1. there was too much straying from the book; or 2.) that Hollywood actually did screw it up.
In these cases, we probably should just let the movie stand on its own merits. Otherwise, we will be perpetually disappointed.
The book was a series of interviews taken after an apocalyptic zombie war.
So it was compiled of many sub stories from different corners of the earth. No one man was the frikkin Hollywood hero. That is where the movie will screw it up.
I never understood the argument of Hollywood screwing up the story and the book is so much better…well yeah.
Unless they’re gonna turn a movie into a 1 showing per day w/ breaks every hour, it is impossible to translate the book into a 2hr movie.
Look at the GodFather book…it took 2 3hr movies to tell that story…
Kind of interesting symmetry. Mary Shelly’s Frankenstien’s monster was a actually physically superior to humans, it was only in the movies that he became a slow, dim witted creature. It almost looks like we have the opposite here with the zombies becoming faster.
I kept saying wwz would have been done better as a hbo tv series.
This.
Movies (and TV shows) are fundamentally different media from books or magazines or ‘graphic novels’. Expecting a perfect translation to the screen is simply wishful thinking.
As a for instance… you have Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings movies. On their own merits, they’re pretty good. And if you like the books you’ll probably like the movies. But if you go in expecting a perfect translation of JRR Tolkien’s grand opus, you’re going to be disappointed. In fact, most of the places where the movies slow down and start to become malodorous are the places where they are most faithful to the books. Nevermind the fact that the movie’s over three hours long and feels like it has three or four distinct endings, I still know people who are sore that the Scouring of the Shire did not make it into The Return of the King.
The best you can hope for is to take what works from the books in a movie and try to meaningfully reconstruct bits and pieces from the book around the bits that do work. And you have to know what you have to have and what you cannot have at all, except maybe to nod at. And that’s really tricky to do.
There are few things HBO wouldn’t do better than Hollywood…
The book zombies were the slow type. These appear to be “hyper strong” which ruins much of it for me, too. I rather like the 28 Days Later variety. No more athletic or hardened than you or I.
“One man with courage makes a majority.”
I think the type of zombie relates to what you are trying to say about society. Good SCI fi isn’t about the future, it is set in the future and a commentary about the present.
To me slow zombies represent the overall tide of societal pressures. Fast zombies, and Mary Shelly’s Frankenstien’s monster, are meant to raise issues with the technological advances that make life go faster and that we could loose control of and become victims too.
don’t think the book was made for the big screen. there’s no way the story will be the same. i’ve also heard already that the story is drastically changed.
would have been great if they made it like band of brothers. or even if they made it like animatrix
Wait a minute. I though it was Will Smith who saved us from zombies. Or, maybe that was mutant vampires…