MrRalphMan Posted December 15, 2010 Share Posted December 15, 2010 Thanks to RedM (I think), I read this book ages ago and have been awaiting the film to come out. I think it was initially set for release in 2010 and IMDB now shows it to be 2012. Do you think this is ever going to come out or have any further info on the film? Cheers, Paul. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Edd1Ninety9 Posted December 15, 2010 Share Posted December 15, 2010 Such a sweet book, I hope it does come out. Then again they may butcher it so sitting on the fence here! Do love a good zombie movie though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt H Posted December 15, 2010 Share Posted December 15, 2010 Thanks to RedM (I think), I read this book ages ago and have been awaiting the film to come out. I think it was initially set for release in 2010 and IMDB now shows it to be 2012. Do you think this is ever going to come out or have any further info on the film? Cheers, Paul. Never heard of the book, but it sounds like a good read. From the gist of it, a film adaptation would be brilliant as I presume it would be a documentary style story with numerous flash backs highlighitng certain events and the stories of a few non or maybe connected individuals? Sounds like it would be epic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrRalphMan Posted December 15, 2010 Author Share Posted December 15, 2010 It's an awesome book, his first one 'The Zombie Survival Guide' is pretty good too.. I have a couple of copies stashed around, just in case.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Posted December 15, 2010 Share Posted December 15, 2010 They would come in handy if heavy enough to kill a zombie when thrown, have soft absorbant paper but also burn very well giving off lots of heat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedM Posted December 15, 2010 Share Posted December 15, 2010 I love this book so much. I read it for the umpteenth time just a week ago. We may see the film. We may not. The book is enough though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SupraHuman Posted December 15, 2010 Share Posted December 15, 2010 For all you zombie lovers out there , d/l the "FETIDUS" audio book free from I-tunes. Very good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrRalphMan Posted December 16, 2010 Author Share Posted December 16, 2010 I love this book so much. I read it for the umpteenth time just a week ago. We may see the film. We may not. The book is enough though. True, now I've finished with Men at Arms I'm gonna start reading wwz again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedM Posted August 12, 2011 Share Posted August 12, 2011 Oh darn. The film will in no way follow the plot of the book. http://io9.com/5830389/world-war-z-movie-synopsis-is-nothing-like-the-book-internet-melts-down Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrRalphMan Posted August 13, 2011 Author Share Posted August 13, 2011 Oh I hope that's not true, I was really looking forward to this film. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Posted August 13, 2011 Share Posted August 13, 2011 Why do people do this nonsense, take a prefectly good book and try to ruin it? 'Yah, cool, we're really liking this Romeo and Juliet concept for a film, but let's make it about a ditzy blonde TV producer who falls in love with an astronaut and they try to adopt two Somalian kids. We'll call it "dark side o'the moon?"' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tannhauser Posted August 13, 2011 Share Posted August 13, 2011 take a prefectly good book and try to ruin it? Like Tom Brown's Schooldays, for example? My pet hate is the rewriting of female characters to fit the modern idiom. Every lead female character in film drama has to be 'feisty', regardless of the source material. Billie Piper in Mansfield Park a few years ago was an egregious example. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Posted August 13, 2011 Share Posted August 13, 2011 I've not read it, and having googly'd it, I still don't get your point, Like Anne Francis in Forbidden Planet, I can see that was terribly clever, but I don't understand it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tannhauser Posted August 13, 2011 Share Posted August 13, 2011 I've not read it, and having googly'd it, I still don't get your point, Like Anne Francis in Forbidden Planet, I can see that was terribly clever, but I don't understand it. You typed prefectly rather than perfectly, so I tried to think of a piece of classic fiction that has been filmed and has prefects in it. It was very feeble really, and doubly so now I've explained it. But good on you for mentioning Forbidden Planet, one of the coolest film ever. 'Monsters from the id!' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Posted August 14, 2011 Share Posted August 14, 2011 Ahhhhhh. Sorry. I still couldn't see that for about 3 seconds after reading what you explained. I must suffer from a mild form of wood blandness. Apparently Shakespear DID set The Tempest on a far away planet, but his agent told him to make it about sailors instead removing the line "...fault with the Klystron Modulator? What is it?" "It's a large piece of unspecified equipment crucial to plot development, but that's not important right now." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorin Posted August 15, 2011 Share Posted August 15, 2011 Filming starting in Glasgow this weekend. Staring Brad Pitt... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-14523503 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozz Posted August 15, 2011 Share Posted August 15, 2011 This sounds like a very interesting book, ordered! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ewen Posted August 15, 2011 Share Posted August 15, 2011 ahhhhhh. Sorry. I still couldn't see that for about 3 seconds after reading what you explained. I must suffer from a mild form of wood blandness. Apparently shakespear did set the tempest on a far away planet, but his agent told him to make it about sailors instead removing the line "...fault with the klystron modulator? What is it?" "it's a large piece of unspecified equipment crucial to plot development, but that's not important right now." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Posted August 15, 2011 Share Posted August 15, 2011 This sounds like a very interesting book, ordered! It is. You'll get halfway through and realise that everything you thought that you would do, if there was a zombie outbreak, is wrong and that you'd be truly stuffed. But I have the solution, and so does Timothy Spall, with a little more modification work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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