John Sears | June 4, 2011
Yes I know this story came out months ago… I think we were told about it in February. Still, news of the day often takes precedence, and besides, I foolishly wondered, how much more could Max Brooks really contribute to the canon of Living Supremacist fiction? As it turns out, quite a bit. The premise [...]
John Sears | April 17, 2011
Honestly, this guy gets around. We’ve talked about him before here on the ZRC blog, here and here. Recently he penned a short blog post that went up on Boston.com, about his theory as to the allure of ‘End of the World’ fiction. It’s worth a read for a remarkably candid glimpse into what’s wrong [...]
John Sears | April 14, 2011
Here’s a disturbing taste of Anti-Zombie film: not only are the Zombie characters treated badly, but the actors wishing to portray them are kept separate from those who want to play the Living characters: FLINT, Michigan — Interested in starring in a zombie flick? The writers of a zombie short filming in and around Flint [...]
John Sears | April 13, 2011
Sadly, talented names are getting attached to what may well be the apotheosis of Anti-Zombie hate film: The cinematographer is Oscar winner Robert Richardson, who worked with Pitt on Inglourious Basterds. Marc Forster (Monster’s Ball) will direct the adaptation of Max Brooks’ bestseller, which is rumored to begin filming this month. Shame on all involved.
John Sears | April 12, 2011
Apparently it’s not just ‘World War Z’ that has trouble getting made these days: It had been reported that director Timur Bekmambetov (Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter) purchased the rights to a film about a girl who transforms into a zombie over the course of six agonizing months, but it appears that movie is back on [...]
John Sears | April 10, 2011
It’s sad that a book as divisive and disturbingly Living Supremacist as ‘World War Z’ is getting made at all, but the hoops it manages to jump through astound me. Someone out in Hollywood must really, really hate Zombies. We’re guessing it’s Brad Pitt: With Paramount threatening to cut the rope without a financing partner, [...]
John Sears | March 30, 2011
The ill-advised attempt to adapt Max Brooks’ infamous Anti-Zombie epic, ‘World War Z’, into a feature film starring Brad Pitt seemed to have hit a major snag recently when it was revealed that funding for the movie was hard to come by in these troubled economic times. It appears the studio behind this modern day [...]
John Sears | March 22, 2011
I have distinctly mixed feelings about this latest news on the World War Z movie front: World War Z, Brad Pitt’s movie about a global undead apocalypse, may be dying (or is it re-dying?) unless Paramount can find a co-financier. The film currently has a price tag of more than $125 million, and the studio [...]