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'Prometheus' Scribe Rewriting 'World War Z'
With 'Prometheus' but a few days out of the gate, its screenwriter Damon Lindelof is not ready to slow down one iota. He has been tapped by Paramount to do a rewrite of the script for their 'World War Z.' The movie, which will be directed by Marc Forster, is based on the best-selling novel by Max Brooks and tells the story of the ultimate war between man and zombies. 'World War Z,' set to star Brad Pitt and Anthony Mackie, recently had its release date shifted back from this December to next June in order to facilitate reshoots. Evidently Lindelof will be focusing his rewrite on the film's third act. He doesn't have much time to waste, as Paramount wants to begin reshoots in September or October.
The more new that hits about 'World War Z,' the more it troubles me. First of all, I'm still worried as to how they are going to adapt the specific structure of the book and retain what made it such a fascinating read.The book is a collection of first-hand, after-the-fact interviews that provide a multi-perspective context to the war. The movie however seems to be functioning more as a straight-forward zombie flick, one that I fear will get lost in the shuffle...or maybe I should say the shamble. Then there was the push back from December to June for reshoots, never a good sign. And now they've brought in Lindelof to retool the third act? Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed 'Prometheus' quite a bit, but the overwhelming dissension on that film has to do with Lindelof's and Jon Spaihts' leaky script. Even as a supporter of the film, I can't discount the criticisms made of the story by its detractors. With all this bad news mounting, I'm not sure I have much confidence in this project anymore.
What do you guys think? Is this a positive sign for 'World War Z' or the final nail in the coffin?
Source: THR
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Comment by illlojik on June 12, 2012 at 1:59pm -
Keep the writers of Prometheus away from this please.
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Comment by c clark on June 12, 2012 at 10:17am -
WWZ would have worked best as a "Ani-Matrix" styled anthology, with different artist creating the different stories. Woul dbe interesting to see Russian animators creating the Russian stories, etc.
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Comment by kevin boulet on June 12, 2012 at 9:53am -
This movie shouldn't get made if they're not keeping how WWZ was wrightin. they're just going to F*ck up another story
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Comment by Your Mum on June 12, 2012 at 7:59am -
The Prometheus script was god awful, don't expect the guy to rectify himself with WWZ.. I swear, Hollywood is getting shittier by the minute
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Comment by Kamron Rucker on June 11, 2012 at 11:52pm -
This could easily have been a 20 million dollar mock-umentary juxtaposing the current state of the world against the recounting of events during the 10-year zombie war. Simple, cheap, and just like the book. But no, they take the title and hear zombie and some idiot who never actually read the book signs a check.
It would have been a great new take on zombie flicks. We've seen the found footage stuff, this would be a straight up documentary on a fake war, and if done right would have been topical, thought provoking, scary (through 'archival' footage), fun and original. But instead we're getting run-of-the-mill shlock.
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Comment by MavenCree on June 11, 2012 at 9:20pm -
This sounds like a good zombie movie... BUT IT IS NOT WORLD WAR Z!
How the hell do you take a book and just focus on the third act??? What the hell?!
This should never have been made into a movie. This should've been a maxi-series on AMC or HBO. Each week, is someone else's story or maybe two or three of the closely related stories. Then you get the full feel of the story and what's going on. Plus you'd keep it international, which is one of the things that I love about it.
Third act my ass!
So... What? No Russia? No Rydaker? No Christine in the Woods? No Samurai! Indian boat yard! North Korea! Chinese sub!!!!!!
(Okay, I have to go re-read this book now... for the 12th or 13th time.)
It's the people in this book that set it apart and make it special. Cut them out and you have just another zombie blood-fest movie - which is fine... JUST DON'T CALL IT WORLD WAR Z!
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Comment by Ferry2dead on June 11, 2012 at 8:18pm -
This does not sound good!!
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Comment by Joshua Balcombe on June 11, 2012 at 8:08pm -
Star Trek son, 3 words.
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Comment by Russell on June 11, 2012 at 6:15pm
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I have faith in Lindelof's writing abilities, since the stronger parts of Prometheus were written by him. If people want to get pissed off and are still pissed off, be pissed off at the 2nd writer Jon Spaihts(the writer of darkest hour)! But as for WWZ...it's going to be shit, you can't revive shit that was born to be a dead turd.
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Comment by MDS on June 11, 2012 at 5:11pm -
Anyone excited about seeing a movie based on the World War Z book, might as well just go ahead and re-read the book again..... cause Hollywood is just going to give you a generic movie based on another script (Concept) and use the WW-Z name to sucker you into the theaters.
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