World War Z movie preview.

Handsome devil Brad Pitt catching some z's.

The tides-of-zombies effects look great. But it also looks like they abandoned the narrative style of the book: different survivors telling their point of view on the zombie apocalypse in a mock historical documentary. The movie plot: A father trying to keep his family together in the face of blah blah military blah blah .... blah. I'm not getting excited about their moving from a plot structure that was a strong stylistic choice to one that's formulaic.

What made the book great, for me, was all the individual stories. As soon as Brad Pitt was cast, I was afraid this would happen... that it would focus on one person.

Sigh.

This I'll see:

I'm excited for the film, but I'm also having some difficulty with the storyline, considering how divergent it is from the actual book, but eh, it's mother fucking zombies! Not really digging the CGI effect to be honest, it turns the zombie horde into a bit of a faceless force of nature, kind of like a physics defying tidal wave (this is also what killed the Return of the King in LOTR for me, with the dead moving rapidly along like digitized amoeba, and less of a manifestation of actual beings, albeit the "dead" in LOTR were much less corporeal than flesh and bone zombies).

My initial reaction is also a bit different then the kind of horror that I got reading the book, which dealt with so many other psychological and geopolitical issues. The zombies themselves were almost just a background setting, that is, of course, until they got up close and personal with the characters who're already struggling to deal with the living human crisis as society collapsed around the world during "The Great Panic."

Maybe (hopefully) the teaser doesn't fully encompass the breadth of the film, so hopefully it will maintain the international "World War" focus. I think there's a lot of potential for WWZ, but as far as the storyline goes, I think it would do much better as short series (of course, that's not going to earn the millions of a box office hit, thus we have a WWZ branded Brad Pitt movie).

I keep picturing the ironic story of the reality TV star's zombie fortified Long Island mansion as it gets overrun by people trying to get in, with Real World style broadcasting as it happens. The book did such a great job of capturing the scene with the media caught in the middle of the ensuing massacre and orgy that erupts around them, while the hired mercenaries decide to abandon the rich and self-absorbed pricks to their fate... That was good shit. It should be on film.

SPOILERS! (Click to view)

Well, maybe except the part where Bill Maher is balling Ann Coulter - you know it was supposed to be them.

I agree with FellOnEarth, hope this is just an indication of the trailer not the whole film. I've seen enough trailers incorrectly lead perception of a film so fingers crossed

Just going by the trailer thigh this film looks like the only thing it has in common with the book is the name.


Brad Pitt can fuck right off for the travesty it appears he turned this movie into.

All I can suggest to people wanting to see some type of sensory version of the book is to get the audio book .It is amazing with some great voice talent and it really brings the book to life.