More For World War Z

Brad Pitt's long awaited apocalyptic zombie flick "World War Z" is set to destroy theaters on June 21st,  2013. And Plan B (Pitt's Production company) has given us another glimpse into what is to be expected. And from the looks of the latest trailer the film actually looks like it might be worth seeing.

For me I think that the whole Zombie genre is getting rather played out and needs a rest. While there are still zombie things worth watching and owning ("The Walking Dead" comes to mind, despite all the negativity & criticism about the show being slow and too much filler. But on the same token those complainers would say that there is no plot if the show was all action. And in reality "The Walking Dead" isn't really about the zombies anyway. But try to explain that to some... but I digress), but when we get "Twilightesque" zombie love stories & just about every other horror novel is zombies I say enough already. For me, if it comes to zombies now, I have think it is really going to worth it, or I am not even wasting my time.

But with said, with this new trailer for "World War Z" (I wasn't to excited about the first one) I am thinking it just might be worth my time. That it actually seems to have a real plot. I know the film is going to be huge departure from the Max Brooks novel. And while I thought the novel was okay (With way Brooks went about it, with Oral History of the after the fact zombie war, I thought some stories worked out great & some just boring & and a retread from movies that Brooks had seen) the movie is looking interesting.

I was beginning to think Pitt's foray into the horror genre was never going to come out after it was leaked that the film was a disaster of epic proportions. With production shut down for being way over cost because of the script rewrites and re-shoots.  And quite frankly that still worries me. I guess will just have to wait and see. However, I'm thinking the critics are going to have a field day tearing this film down.

Until next time... stay scared.    

"World War Z" Trailer and Thoughts

Holy shit, time to break out your Zombie Survival Handbooks because here it is, the trailer for the big screen adaptation of Max Brooks’ “World War Z”

Don’t worry if haven’t read the novel because from the first looks of it, “World War Z” is going to be nothing (even more than the “Walking Dead”) like the book. Which really is not a bad thng. In case you don’t know the novel, that version of the story is set 10 years after the great war with the undead as Agent Brooks of the United Nations Post War Commission travels around the world gathering information and facts from the years of battle to reclaim the Earth. Whereas the big screen version from Brad Pitt’s production company (Plan B Entertainment) takes us what is sure to be wild ride as UN agent Gerry Lane (Pitt) searches the globe of what the origin is that has brought of this onslaught of the dead and for a way stop it from destroying the world.

Originally set for release at the end of 2012 (because, hell, who doesn’t like death, destruction and the end of the world during the holiday season) “World War Z” seemed to be plagued (pun untended) with problems from almost the start. Everything from production shutdowns to being WAY over budget. Then there were the rumors that the ending was a complete disaster in its own right. Causing the Studio to have Pitt hire a new screen writer to re-write the end and re-film. When I heard that and how the movie was pushed from the Christmas release list I had figured this movie to be a dead issue, maybe finding the light of day either in movie Purgatory of January (that seems to be the time when studios that have little faith in their projects and since most people are recovering from the holiday season they are not typically heading to the movies, so usually there is little or no quality films be put so a movie like this would find no competition and perhaps might make some of it’s budget back) or just dumped on DVD. But with a movie this size and amount to produce the latter would be unlikely with out a big screen release. Then there comes the fact that the “Hobbit” looked slated to be released, if not on the same weekend, then, relatively close to “World War Z” which did not bode well either. So either from genus marketing or perhaps they have actually fixed whatever problems they have, “World War Z” is finally going to find it’s way to the theaters. And right in time for the summer blockbuster season, and reportedly going up against the revamped Superman franchise: “Man of Steel.”

Should be interesting, because the trailer makes it look pretty fucking awesome. However, I do have to note the zombie purists will not be happy as we have returned to the fast moving, rabid eater type zombies.



So check it out and let me know what YOU think.