The Zombie Revolution Will Be Cinematized
Quantum of Solace director Marc Forster is going to make a movie of World War Z, the “stories of survivors of the zombie apocalypse” book written by Max Brooks. J. Michael Straczynski will be writing thee script (some time in-between the other 1800 or so scripts he’s been hired to write over the last year) which I’m a bit ambivalent about. Brad Pitt is producing the flick, but I’ll eat my hat if he stars in it?he doesn’t seem a zombie movie type to me.
Despite the recent glut of zombie films?a glut I’m totally fine with, because zombies are awesome?World War Z is a pretty cool take on the subject, focusing on the human drama and the emotional aftermath of a civilization-destroying attack by the living dead, as it’s set 10 years after the war. But nobody tell George Romero, because he’ll be crushed. (Via /Film)
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.