So Ultimate Drew is rewriting World War Z. I think this is the third re-write after they started shooting.
So.
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Consuela - Jul 15, 2012 12:46:48 pm PDT #21640 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
§ ita § - Jul 15, 2012 12:58:38 pm PDT #21641 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I just read a summary of a report on vulture.com that said that Brad Pitt and the director were not on speaking terms.
And.
le nubian - Jul 15, 2012 1:03:21 pm PDT #21642 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
how can this be possible and the project continue?
§ ita § - Jul 15, 2012 1:06:35 pm PDT #21643 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Aha. The vulture article says that Ultimate Drew is one of a few writers approached: [link] -- Lindelhof is working on it too. Yay! That always works out.
Consuela - Jul 15, 2012 1:11:02 pm PDT #21644 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Lindelhof? Oh, dear.
That always works out.
Indeed.
Tom Scola - Jul 15, 2012 1:12:33 pm PDT #21645 of 30000
hwæt
Seriously, how hard is it to make a zombie movie? George Romero made one in his back yard.
Consuela - Jul 15, 2012 1:25:57 pm PDT #21646 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I think the problem is the adaptation. WWZ is a novel without a hero, basically. It tells a variety of stories, many of which are only linked together by the zombie plague itself. The only through character is the historian collecting the stories.
There is no single triumphant moment. It basically fails to meet the standard story format, doesn't have any heroes or even a single protagonist, and the US ends up looking pretty bad. So it's hard to adapt without changing everything that made the book so interesting to begin with.
Amy - Jul 15, 2012 1:29:53 pm PDT #21647 of 30000
Because books.
Huh. I hadn't read it, and now I want to.
Does sound sort of problematic for a movie, although I guess it's sort of what Altman does sometimes? Or did in Short Cuts and Pret a Porter anyway.
DebetEsse - Jul 15, 2012 1:32:29 pm PDT #21648 of 30000
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Yeah, you really can't do it as a traditional movie.
Now, as a pseudo-documentary in the Ken Burns tradition? Like 10 of us would watch it, and we'd think it was awesome.
Atropa - Jul 15, 2012 1:34:22 pm PDT #21649 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I still don't know why WWZ was sold as a movie. It needed to be a long-running mini-series on HBO or something. That's the only way to do it justice.