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World War Z the movie.. Will we ever see it?


MrRalphMan

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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.

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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?"'

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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.

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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!'

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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."

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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."

 

:D

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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.

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