Fans of World War Z, the phenomenal book by Max Brooks, will be sad to know that the highly anticipated film adaptation will have to wait longer.
This comes from Quantum of Solace director Marc Forster who said that the film’s script needs a lot of development and that it is “still far from realization”.
He is moving on to Disconnect, a film which will explore how humans deal with new technologies and the changes it causes to interpersonal relationships.
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Maintaining its distance from other survivor-based zombie movies, scribe Michael Straczynski told MTV News that his adaptation of Max Brooks’ “World War Z” will emphasize the book’s global events.
“The scale of what we’re doing here is phenomenal…it has that international feel to it” he said, giving one example: “You’re in India with hundreds of boats trying to get out of there with a tidal wave of zombies.”
He continued, saying that the first draft of the screenplay was completed in Spring and had been waiting for a director for several months before getting Marc Forster (Quantum of Solace) onboard.
“Now that Marc is here, I’m working with his notes to make one final pass on the script. Our hope is to get it moving into production by the first of the year.”
Straczynski hopes that production on the film will start soon.
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Just on the heels of Quantum of Solace’s wide release director Marc Forster is working with Paramount to direct World War Z, based on the Max Brooks (son of Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft) bestselling novel on a worldwide infestation of flesh-eating zombies.
Changelingscribe J. Michael Straczynski is writing the screenplay.
According to Variety, Brooks wrote a detailed tale in which a researcher for the U.N. Postwar Commission interviews survivors from countries all over the world, 10 years after the crisis, to gather a first-person post-mortem on a war that obliterated every country on the map.
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