Official WORLD WAR Z Thread

[Heeeere's Olesker!]

Well WORLD WAR Z is coming and it's going to be huge -- as in 'huge success' or 'huge bomb'. I'm hearing guesstimates of the budget being between $125 million and $185 million. Anyone that thinks zombies have peaked ought to consider that a studio does an enormous amount of research and conducts countless focus groups before it invests that kind of money in a film. (As an aside, the zombie industry generated $5 billion in revenues in 2011.)

The film is presently slated to be released on June 21, 2013. There's been a lot of buzz comparing the film to the novel -- not all of it good.

I'd like to hear what orgers specifically think of this project and the future of zombies in general. Feel free to post trailers and 411, and have at each other. After all, ripping each other limb from limb is a part of the zombie culture.

[wolfsfang]

Another zombie movie...

Great

Just what the world needs... more zombies.

Wonderful

[GeologyMule]

I loved the book. It was really good. From what I can tell from the trailer it doesn't seem like the book. This makes me worried.

[Ivan]

I loved the book! It's an innovative and interesting take on zombie apocalypse. But I agree with GeologyMule that the trailer looks nothing like the book and it makes me worried too. IMO, the perfect visual medium for this book would be a pseudo-documentary. Like those history specials where witnesses/experts sit in a studio and talk and then they cut to dramatization/historical footage. Or, maybe something like Band of Brothers, where they put veterans talking at the beginning/end. Something like that...

As wolfsfang pointed out, the market is so over-saturated with zombie stuff and it seems like the movie has taken away the innovative and unique perspective the book had.

[Bear-at-Arms]

I don't think Brad Pitt really resonates with Adult Males as being an action star. I also think people don't like the sprinting maniac being portrayed as a zombie. I think it will break $100,000,000.00, but not by much.

[wolfsfang]

I watched the trailer and honestly I felt like I had seen it all before. From the fast moving zombies to the man trying to keep his family safe to the army looking pretty ineffective against the innumerable hordes of the undead. It all seemed so familiar. Heck even the part in the trailer where a guy (in this case a cop) is in the middle of saying something to the heroes family before suddenly getting hit by some vehicle...seems very cliched to me.

That's what it looks like to me...every modern zombie movie + action film cliche put together in one movie.


Personally I want to see a BIG budget werewolf movie. A movie where New York or somewhere gets overrun by ravenous, bloodthirsty lycanthropes (I mean hundreds, if not thousands, of them). Now that I would LOVE to see.

[Ivan]

28 Days Later had fast moving zombies. And it also had inefficient army (well, more like "let's band together in our little group and don't care about anyone else" kind of army). But that movie was pretty good.

 

To be more clear, 28 Days Later "zombies" were actually living humans infected with some form of rabies, which is (more or less) the case in World War Z, too. That is why they are so fast, and act like "sprinting maniacs".

[Krueger]

I must admit, I do like the visual effect they have going on with the zombies. It’s something different. It’s a refreshing change from the usual way that zombies are depicted. I've never read the book, so when I watch this I'll just be judging it as a film rather than as an adaptation.

Anyway, it hasn't been posted in the thread yet. Here's the trailer:

[dedset13]

As expected, the trailer was nothing special.

Zombies = Boring

I also agree with wolfsfang, it's been way to long since a good werewolf movie was made.

[Rhanen]

I also like Lycans, but it is quite hard to nail an aspect that doesn't make them look like a film version of Coyote Willie. Last Werewolf with Del Toro was just meh

I did not read the book, and the waves of zombies look cool, although I'd like to see something different also

[Heeeere's Olesker!]

I don't think Brad Pitt really resonates with Adult Males as being an action star. I also think people don't like the sprinting maniac being portrayed as a zombie. I think it will break $100,000,000.00, but not by much.

Mr. & Mrs. Smith generated a worldwide box office of $478 million. I'd call nearly half a billion in box office "resonating".

As for whether or not he can do action/adventure...well, you tell me.

http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi362479897/

I get the point a lot of zombie lovers are making about the market being saturated. But the reality is that it isn't -- it just seems that way to those that have always loved zombies because they've been tuned into the genre for so long. They were there are the beginning and because they've always loved zombies they've been aware of every zombie vehicle that has come out. But for much of society zombies are a relatively new thing and when a genre generates $5 billion, as zombies did in 2011, it tells you that it hasn't even begun to crest.

I'm not pro or con on WORLD WAR Z. I'm going to resevre judgement. I like Pitt and I think he's a good actor. We'll see about the film.

What I'd also like to hear is what a few orgers that haven't always been into zombies -- and that are relatively new to the genre -- think of the trailer.

[wolfsfang]

Mr. & Mrs. Smith generated a worldwide box office of $478 million. I'd call nearly half a billion in box office "resonating".

As for whether or not he can do action/adventure...well, you tell me.

http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi362479897/

I get the point a lot of zombie lovers are making about the market being saturated. But the reality is that it isn't -- it just seems that way to those that have always loved zombies because they've been tuned into the genre for so long. They were there are the beginning and because they've always loved zombies they've been aware of every zombie vehicle that has come out. But for much of society zombies are a relatively new thing and when a genre generates $5 billion, as zombies did in 2011, it tells you that it hasn't even begun to crest.

I'm not pro or con on WORLD WAR Z. I'm going to resevre judgement. I like Pitt and I think he's a good actor. We'll see about the film.

What I'd also like to hear is what a few orgers that haven't always been into zombies -- and that are relatively new to the genre -- think of the trailer.

well to be fair all my comments are based on the fact that I simply do not like zombies (so it isn't just zombie lovers that feel the market is saturated). imho they are one of the most BORING monsters EVER created and the only reason they keep making movies about them is because they are relatively simple to make.

heck here is a list of all the zombie movies I have found that have come out since the year 2000


1. The Dead Hate the Living!
2. Flesh Freaks
3. Junk the Movie
4. Machine Head
5. Meat Market
6. Prison of the Dead
7. Teenage Zombie House Massacre
8. Versus
9. Wild Zero
10. Zombie Bloodbath 3: Zombie Armageddon
11. Zombie Snake
12. All You Zombie
13. Biohazardous
14. Children of the Living Dead
15. Ghosts of Mars
16. Meat Market 2
17. Mulva: Zombie Ass Kicker!
18. Mutation 2 – Generation Dead
19. Plaga Zombie: Zona Mutante
20. The Resurrection Game
21. Ritual
22. Route 666
23. Stacy
24. The Zombie Chronicles
25. 28 Days Later
26. Dead/Undead
27. Death Factory
28. Deathwatch
29. The Last Days of Humanity
30. Mark Of The Astro Zombies
31. Mutation 3 – Century of the Dead
32. Necropolis Awakened
33. The Neighbor Zombie
34. Resident Evil
35. Walk Like a Zombie
36. Zombie Campout
37. Zombie Ferox
38. Battlefield Baseball
39. Beyond Re-Animator
40. Blood of the Beast
41. The Bog Creatures
42. Boot Hill Blind Dead
43. Corpses Are Forever
44. Daddy, kiss me
45. Dead Clowns
46. Deadhunter: Sevillian Zombies
47. Exhumed
48. The Ghouls
49. Goregoyles: The Holy Terror
50. Gory Gory Hallelujah
51. House of the Dead
52. I'll See You in My Dreams
53. The Mental Dead
54. The Naked and the Living Dead
55. The Necro Files 2
56. Noctem
57. The Revolting Dead
58. Undead
59. Wiseguys vs. Zombies
60. Zombie Night
61. Zombiegeddon
62. Zombiegore
63. Angry and Moist: An Undead Chronicle
64. Bad Friend
65. Bone Sickness
66. Choking Hazard
67. Corpses
68. Curse of the Maya
69. Dawn of the Dead
70. Dead & Breakfast
71. Dead Meat
72. Death Valley: The Revenge of Bloody Bill
73. Feeding the Masses
74. **** Norge
75. Gay By Dawn
76. Ghost Lake
77. Graveyard Alive: A Zombie Nurse in Love
78. Hide and Creep
79. Hunting Creatures
80. Lord of the Undead
81. Museum of the Dead
82. Die Nacht der lebenden Loser
83. Oh! My Zombie Mermaid
84. Punk Rock Zombie Kung Fu Catfight
85. Resident Evil: Apocalypse
86. Rotten Shaolin Zombies
87. SARS Wars
88. Shadows of the Dead
89. Shaolin Vs. Evil Dead
90. Shaun of the Dead
91. Tele-Zombie
92. They Came Back
93. Vampires Vs. Zombies
94. Zombie Graveyard
95. Zombie Honeymoon
96. Zombie King and the Legion of Doom
97. Zombie Nation
98. Zombie Planet
99. Zombie Vegetarians
100. All Souls Day
101. Beneath Still Waters
102. Boy Eats Girl
103. Bubba's Chili Parlor
104. Day of the Dead 2: Contagium
105. Day X
106. Dead at the Box Office
107. Dead Creek
108. Dead Life
109. Dead Men Walking
110. Dead Serious
111. Dead Summer
112. Dead Things
113. Die You Zombie *******s!
114. Die Zombiejäger
115. Le Divan vert
116. Doom
117. The Drunken Dead Guy
118. Evil
119. Fragile
120. The Graveyard of Death
121. Hood of the Living Dead
122. House of the Dead 2
123. Knight of the Living Dead
124. Land of the Dead
125. Legion of the Dead
126. Livelihood
127. Living Dead Lock Up (Living Dead Lockup)
128. Mortuary
129. Night of the Day of the Dawn of the Son of the Bride of the Terror of…Part 3
130. Pleasures of the Damned
131. Pot Zombies
132. Raiders of the Damned
133. Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis
134. Return of the Living Dead: Rave to the Grave
135. Rise of the Undead
136. The Roost
137. Severed: Forest of the Dead
138. Song of the Dead
139. The Stink of Flesh
140. Swamp Zombies
141. Tokyo Zombie
142. Z: A Zombie Musical
143. Zombie Planet 2: Adam's Revenge
144. Zombiez
145. After Sundown (Yo Mama A Ho)
146. Automaton Transfusion
147. City of Rott
148. Dead and Deader
149. Dead in the Water
150. The Dead Live
151. Die and Let Live
152. Doomed to Consume
153. Dorm of the Dead
154. Electric Zombies
155. Enter the Zombie
156. Fido
157. Forbidden Siren
158. Four Horror Tales - Dark Forest
159. Gangs of the Dead
160. Hood of Horror
161. Horrors of War
162. Island of the Living Dead
163. Last Rites of the Dead
164. Meat Market 3
165. Mulberry Street
166. Night of the Dead: Leben Tod
167. Night of the Living Dead 3D
168. Pathogen
169. The Plague
170. Porn of the Dead
171. Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead
172. The Quick and the Undead
173. Shadow: Dead Riot
174. The Slaughter
175. Slither
176. Special Dead
177. Storm of the Dead
178. Stoned Dead
179. They Must Eat
180. War of the Dead
181. War of the Zombies
182. War of the Living Dead
183. Wicked Little Things
184. Zombie Commando
185. The Zombie Diaries
186. Zombie Night 2: Awakening
187. Zombie Outbreak
188. Zombie Self-Defense Force
189. Zombie Wars
190. Zombies Anonymous
191. Zombies by Design
192. ZombieWestern: It Came from the West
193. 28 Weeks Later
194. American Zombie
195. Awaken the Dead
196. Beneath the Surface
197. Black Swarm
198. Brain Blockers
199. Brain Dead
200. Days of Darkness
201. Dead and Gone
202. Dead Heist
203. Doomed
204. Evil Keg
205. Flight of the Living Dead: Outbreak on a Plane
206. Fog²- Revenge of the Executed
207. Forest of the Dead
208. Forever Dead
209. Ghost Zombie
210. I Am Legend
211. I Am Omega
212. It's My Party and I'll Die If I Want To
213. Living Dead Lock Up 2: March of the Dead
214. The Mad
215. Motocross Zombies from Hell
216. Mutation – Annihilation
217. Otto; or Up with Dead People
218. Planet Terror
219. The Rage
220. [●REC]
221. Resident Evil: Extinction
222. Rise of the Dead
223. Risen
224. Rising Dead[31] (The Rising Dead)
225. The Signal
226. Street Team Massacre
227. Undead or Alive
228. Undead Pool
229. Undead Ted
230. Urban Decay
231. Wasting Away
232. Zibahkhana
233. Zombie Cheerleader Camp
234. Zombie Farm
235. Zombie Hunters
236. Zombie Town
237. Zombies Gone Wild
238. Zombies: The Beginning
239. Zombies! Zombies! Zombies!
240. Army of the Dead
241. Bachelor Party in the Bungalow of the Damned
242. Colin
243. Dance of the Dead
244. Day of the Dead
245. Dead Country
246. The Dead Outside
247. Dead Snow[19]
248. Dead Space: Downfall
249. Deadgirl[20]
250. Deep River: The Island
251. Descendents
252. Diary of the Dead
253. Evilution
254. Fast Zombies with Guns
255. Flick
256. Graveyard of the Living Dead
257. House of the Damned
258. I Sell the Dead
259. Insanitarium
260. Johnny Sunshine Maximum Violence
261. King Zombie
262. Last of the Living
263. Make-Out with Violence
264. Mud Zombies
265. Mutant Vampire Zombies from the 'Hood!
266. Ninjas vs. Zombies
267. O.C. Babes and the Slasher of Zombietown
268. Onechanbara: Zombie Bikini Squad
269. Outpost
270. Pig Hunt
271. Plaguers
272. Plague Town
273. Quarantine
274. Reel Zombies
275. Resident Evil: Degeneration
276. RetarDEAD
277. Rika: The Zombie Killer
278. Sabbath[32]
279. Samurai Zombie
280. Sexykiller
281. Slime City Massacre
282. Stag Night of the Dead
283. Street of the Dead
284. Trailer Park of Terror
285. Uniform SurviGirl I
286. Uniform SurviGirl II
287. The Vanguard
288. Virus Undead
289. Yoroi: Samurai Zonbie
290. Zombie Apocalypse Now! (Un Cazador de zombis
291. Zombie Strippers!
292. Against the Dark
293. Alice Jacobs is Dead
294. Autumn
295. Bio Dead
296. Blood Creek
297. Blood Moon Rising
298. The Bloodfest Club
299. The Book of Zombie
300. The Brass Ring
301. Broken Springs
302. The Crypt
303. Dark Floors
304. Dead Air
305. Dead Moon Rising
306. The Dead Undead
307. The Dead... Will Rise!
308. Doghouse
309. Drive-In Horrorshow
310. Eat Me!
311. Edges of Darkness
312. Evil: In the Time of Heroes
313. Gallowwalker
314. The Horde
315. I Am Bish
316. The Living Corpse
317. Mutants (2009 film)
318. Night of the Living Dead: Reanimated
319. Platoon of the Dead
320. Pontypool
321. Pushin' Up Daisies
322. [●REC]2
323. Redneck Carnage
324. The Revenant
325. Romeo & Juliet vs. The Living Dead
326. Sick and The Dead
327. Silent Night, Zombie Night
328. The Sky Has Fallen'
329. Tormented
330. Urban Scumbags vs. Countryside Zombies Reanimated
331. ZMD: Zombies of Mass Destruction
332. Zombie Allegiance
333. Zombie Dearest
334. Zombie Farm
335. Zombies of the Night
336. Zombie Reanimation
337. Zombie Women of Satan
338. Zombieland
339. Zone of the Dead
340. Ada: Zombilerin Düğünü
341. Astro Zombies M3: Cloned
342. Atom the Amazing Zombie Killer
343. Atomic Brain Invasion
344. Beverly Lane[12]
345. Beyond the Grave
346. Biophage
347. Bounty (2010 film)[16]
348. The Crazies
349. The Dead
350. Dead Past – Rache aus dem Jenseits
351. Devil's Playground
352. Die-ner (Get It?)
353. Dug Up
354. Gatekeeper: Unlock Your Worst Fears
355. Hell Driver
356. Highschool of the Dead
357. Horrorween
358. I Walked with a Zombie
359. Juan of the Dead
360. L.A. Zombie
361. The Legend of Zombie Road 3D
362. Necro Wars
363. Night of the Living Dead: Origins 3D
364. Night of the Living Heads
365. Nightmare Alley
366. The Pack
367. Project Nine
368. Rammbock: Berlin Undead
369. Resident Evil: Afterlife
370. Sint
371. Slices of Life
372. Survival of the Dead
373. They Walk
374. Unrated: The Movie
375. Wake the Dead
376. Zombie Apocalypse
377. Zombie Driftwood
378. Zombie Massacre
379. Zombie Roadkill
380. Zombie Undead
381. Zomblies
382. Zombrex: Dead Rising Sun
383. Bloodlust Zombies
384. Bong of the Dead
385. The Cabin in the Woods
386. Caustic Zombies
387. Chillerama
388. Cost of the Living: A Zom Rom Com
389. DeadHeads
390. Deadtime Stories 2
391. Death of the Dead
392. Dylan Dog: Dead of Night
393. Eaters[22]
394. Exit Humanity
395. Fading of the Cries
396. First Platoon
397. Harold's Going Stiff
398. Humans Versus Zombies
399. Ninja Zombies[30]
400. Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
401. Portrait of a Zombie
402. Post Mortem, America 2021
403. Quarantine 2: Terminal
404. Remains
405. Rise of the Damned
406. Schoolgirl Apocalypse
407. Stripperland
408. Virulents
409. War of the Dead
410. Zombie Apocalypse: Redemption
411. Zombie Apocalypse
412. Zombie Dawn
413. The Zombie Diaries 2
414. Zombie Doomsday
415. Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies
416. BFF Zombie
417. Celluloid Bloodbath: More Prevues from Hell
418. A Little Bit Zombie
419. Night of the Living Dead 3D: Re-animation
420. Parasitic
421. [●REC]3 Génesis
422. Resident Evil: Retribution
423. Resident Evil: Damnation
424. The Zombie King
425. Zombies vs. Strippers

add to that shows like The Walking Dead and any other sci-fi, fantasy tv show that has had an ep or two dealing with zombies...it looks pretty saturated to me

Also Mr & Mrs Smith was a reasonably interesting concept that just wasn't done well.

[Benedict Judas Hel]

Personally I want to see a BIG budget werewolf movie. A movie where New York or somewhere gets overrun by ravenous, bloodthirsty lycanthropes (I mean hundreds, if not thousands, of them).

Nope. Wouldn't work. Wolves are territorial and only stick to their packs. They wouldn't work together in large groups. Plus they'd only be werewolves during full moons. You can't really conquer New York City in one night. Well, not without nuclear weaponry.

Now, werewolves armed with ICBMs...that's a movie!

[wolfsfang]

Nope. Wouldn't work. Wolves are territorial and only stick to their packs. They wouldn't work together in large groups. Plus they'd only be werewolves during full moons. You can't really conquer New York City in one night. Well, not without nuclear weaponry.

Now, werewolves armed with ICBMs...that's a movie!

well I meant werewolves like the ones in the Ginger Snaps series where once they changed they don't turn back. The whole full moon to change thing does not apply to every werewolf

[Barbecue17]

World War Z was a fantastic, brilliant book. Yeah, it was a horror/ alternative history tale but it was so well written and believable that it stood out. I haven't seen the trailers yet, but considerng the lofty expectations both the book and the audio book have layed upon this project, I fear some folks will be dissapointed.

That being said, I love zombies. I've loved them since I was a kid and I'll love them until the day I die (hopefully not becoming a zombie, however).

[MOTU_Maniac]

I have never been big into zombies, but this movie looks pretty good to me.