World War Z movie

[Bill-117]

For those of you who are big Max Brooks fans, like moi, and have read World War Z, there's supposed to be a movie coming out. Evidently, it's in Brad Pitt's studio (great... Angelina will get every single female part. -_-) but no release date, or even prediction has been set. In fact, nobody has said ANYTHING about it since Plan B Entertainment took the movie deal. What the?

[UndeadGuyX]

Actually there has been talk about how the script might make it the first zombie movie to win an Oscar.

[Mike70]

the script is being written by J.M. Straczynski of babylon 5 fame. he is a big user/fan of the internet (he actually posted regularly on a B5 forum back when the show was on the air) and he recently posted some comments online about how he is less than pleased about his script getting leaked and all the internet talk surrounding it. basically he is asking people to shut the f*ck up with all the speculation, analysis, etc. about the script. Guys, here's a simple question. Do you want to see this film made, or just talk about the script? Studios get very nervous when drafts leak out, and they get even more nervous when people start taking it apart, good or bad, online...it can make them think too many people have seen it, start reconsidering their opinions, and the next thing you know it's back in development hell or gone. I've seen several projects at this sensitive stage literally scuttled by such things. If all you want is to talk about the script, then great...but if you want to see Max Brooks' novel brought to film, brought to life, and maybe make one of the best zombie movies in a long time, can we declare a moratorium on both analyses and passing around my script (which people shouldn't have in any event) until AFTER the film gets made? Thanks. JMS

[MinionZombie]

I totally wanna see the flick, but I can't be sh*tted to read any leaked scripts... I wonder how it got leaked...

[Legion2213]

JMS did some fine work on B5. This is pleasant news.

[Bill-117]

Hm. So nobody has any idea of a release date though?

[IRA_LCPL]

I admit it I was weak I read some reviews of the script and I also read the script itself And I am NOT looking forward to the Flic they took out (as of when I read it before the re-write)ALL characters of ANY interest including the two Japanese guys and the American Soldier. It mainly makes up a bunch of Shiite about the author and the story surrounds him trying to publish his book and the big bad evil government telling him not to. From what I saw it is not even a Zed flic and will most likely be a blemish on the Genre. In my opinion its gonna be another festering Turd of big budget fuuckassery that the masses will love but the TRUE fans know better.

[Bill-117]

Oh. oh... god. No U.S. Soldier story? That was the best part of the book!

[jim102016]

the script is being written by J.M. Straczynski of babylon 5 fame. he is a big user/fan of the internet (he actually posted regularly on a B5 forum back when the show was on the air) and he recently posted some comments online about how he is less than pleased about his script getting leaked and all the internet talk surrounding it. basically he is asking people to shut the f*ck up with all the speculation, analysis, etc. about the script. F*ck that guy! What time does he think he lives in? Welcome to the real world, asshole, nothing is safe anymore!

[UndeadGuyX]

F*ck that guy! What time does he think he lives in? Welcome to the real world, asshole, nothing is safe anymore! Tell that to the studios. Not him.

[Bill-117]

You have a point. With the internet around, no movie script is safe...

[jim102016]

F*ck that guy! What time does he think he lives in? Welcome to the real world, asshole, nothing is safe anymore! Studios? For all we know, he was the leak!

[ZombieGrrL]

You have a point. With the internet around, no movie script is safe... How do they get out in the first place? Other than carelessness, sending it to the email address - or simple hacking?

[Publius]

How do they get out in the first place? Other than carelessness, sending it to the email address - or simple hacking? Often, one person trying to impress another. "Hey man, look what I have access to!" After a couple of rounds of that, the cat's out of the bag.

[Bill-117]

Yeah. Plus, some people do it for money. Middle-management schlubs who get paid to leak it.