What’s happening with World War Z?
World War Z is one of the more popular zombie-based books within the past few years, an obvious fictional telling of the supposed zombie war. J. Michael Straczynski was able to chat it up with the good folks at Collider on the latest of his newest project. Straczynski just penned the newly released action flick Ninja Assassin and has previously written scripts for other feature films like Changeling. Here’s more below from Film School Rejects:
JMS: Yes, I wrote five drafts.
Q: Is it close to getting done?
JMS: One never knows. The director is attached to it and Paramount really wants to see it done because they have a lot of money invested in this thing. They think it could be a really big film for them.
Q: How did you adapt the first person narrative?
JMS: A series of interviews, so I basically said, “Well, who did those interviews?” And you tell the story of the guy who works for the UN going around the planet interviewing folks to see what happened to them and report on what happened. Through his eyes, you see flashbacks of those storylines.
Q: Zombies are big now.
JMS: Well, they have good agent.
Does this come up on your radar as something you would like to see in the future, or do you think that there has already been one too many zombie flicks that have come out within the past ten years and then some?
this is by far the most anticipated film on my radar. i absolutely loved the book!
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No movie has captured the biting (get it) satire of WWZ. I really hope this movie can be made, but ONLY if it really follows the faux-documentary nature of the book. If this turns into a real time action piece, it will be a total failure.
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This report is a lie. J. Michael Straczynski was released from the project months ago. Michael Carnahan (The Kingdom) has been picked, I believe.
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