World War Z--Still filming!

[Baitball Blogger]

Hard to believe they're still filming! This is turning as epic as LOTR. I hope it's as good.

http://www.eonline.com/news/366845/brad-pitt-bloody-on-world-war-z-set-see-the-pics

[AllenVanAllen]

1. I know a guy working on the FX for it.

He said it was kind of a cluster-fuck. I know it's not going to be much like the book, as it'll focus on the journalist's story more than the individual stories he chronicles after the Great Zombie War like the in the book. I'll keep an open mind though. It still may turn out to be a good flick.

[Baitball Blogger]

6. It's a different movie than the book. No question about that.

I believe that an FXer would have been concerned by the fact that they still didn't have an idea of what the zombies were going to look like well into the planning stage.

Hopefully, all that will be worked out by 2013.

[AllenVanAllen]

7. Fingers crossed!

I had such high hopes when I first heard about it. If it's a good film I won't care if it's not like the book. I would think the book would have been better served by a mini-series. So many great stories in WWZ.

[Archae]

2. I saw a trailer for it.

First off, I don't like zombie movies and TV to begin with.

Second, this one has too much CGI in it, lots of bodies pouring over objects and piling up.

So I'll pass completely.

[Baitball Blogger]

5. If you don't like zombies, this movie is def not for you.

[NewJeffCT]

3. epic, or an epic fail?

aren't a lot of late reshoots usually a bad sign?

[Baitball Blogger]

4. They keep talking about LOTR.

And, wasn't AVATAR a ten year project?

It definitely isn't going to follow the book. I was disappointed at first, but heartened by the trailer because it does seem to ratchet up the suspense now that zombies are moving with military-style force.

I'm going out on a limb, but maybe the trouble they had with the ending was finding a suitable transition for the next movie?

[NewJeffCT]

8. If the movie was not named after a genre classic

I think a lot of zombie movie fans would have been excited to see it.

[Baitball Blogger]

9. Good point.