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.
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§ ita § - Jul 15, 2012 1:06:35 pm PDT #21643 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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.
Gris - Jul 15, 2012 1:36:45 pm PDT #21650 of 30000
Hey. New board.
I love Hot Fuzz, as well as Simon Pegg in the Star Trek movie. Which may actually be the only Star Trek thing I've ever loved (never could get past the cheesy in TOS, want to watch more TNG based solely on friend recommendations but the pilot was really quite awful, despite hints of potential future awesomeness, and the only other movie I've seen is the one with the whales. I'll probably see Ant-Man.
DebetEsse - Jul 15, 2012 1:36:51 pm PDT #21651 of 30000
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Seriously. Pretty much each of those interviews could hold down its own episode.
Vonnie K - Jul 15, 2012 2:06:30 pm PDT #21652 of 30000
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Gris, I started with Deep Space Nine, without seeing any TOS or TNG and loved it to bits. It's meaty and complicated with awesome political arcs and shades of gray up the wazoo. I still haven't watched more than a handful of the original series or TNG (but strangely enough, caught up on Voyager) and it remains one of my all-time favourite TV series.
Star Trek the movie: LOVE
Hot Fuzz: AWESOME, but not quite at the level of Shaun of the Dead IMO
Ant-Man: have no opinion
Black Widow: have ALL THE FEELS! I honestly don't care that much about ScarJo's action!fu or lack thereof (I've watched SMG play an action heroine for 7 years after all), but boy, did that character ever hit all my buttons. I don't know too much about BW's comics backstory, but I hope they'll find a way to give her a substantial part in the Winter Soldier storyline.