World War Z - Set video shows running zombies?

[Geophyrd]

Pretty cool. I guess all the zombie effects will be cgi?

[JDFP]

If this has running zombies I refuse to watch it. I don't care if the film wins an Academy Award, I won't watch it. It already looks like shit and sounds like it from everything reported about it, but changing from REAL zombies to running zombies would be the final nail in the coffin for me to even check it out on rental (which is what I'd be doing anyway as I won't spend $10 to see a movie in a theatre). The only thing this seems to have in common with the excellent novel is the name at this point. It should really be called something else as it is *NOT* "World War Z". I'm so damn sick and tired of running zombies. j.p.

[kidgloves]

Oh FFS -- -------- Post added at 08:04 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:01 PM ---------- Yonkers will be nothing like the book now. Totally killed the whole point of the segment

[bassman]

I'm not a big fan of the rage-like movements, but I'm still open to giving the movie a chance.

[kidgloves]

I'm not a big fan of the rage-like movements, but I'm still open to giving the movie a chance. I think most of us will give it a chance but it ceases to be WWZ when you introduce running zombies. Any news on Cranstons role yet? Heard him on a podcast the other day and he didn't mention it

[Ghost Of War]

I'm not a big fan of the rage-like movements, but I'm still open to giving the movie a chance. I'm not. Fuck it. One of the main points in the book was the relentless onslaught of shambling hordes of dead people coming to eat you. If they run, how are they gonna do Yonkers? How are they gonna do frozen zombies? There's so many things in the book that simply CANNOT be done with running zombies that they might as well bill it as a sequel to Snyders version of Dawn Of The Dead. The more I read about this movie the more I don't want to see it. There was a tiny bit of an article the other week that said soething about it being filmed in two timelines, so I thought "hey, cool, they might be sticking more closely to the book via flashbacks"...after seeing that guy in that video having a fit seconds after being bit by Usain Bolt-zombie, well, meh.

[Rancid Carcass]

I guess all the zombie effects will be cgi? It looks like a rehearsal to me, so it's hard to tell what's what exactly. I'll give it the benefit of the doubt and say that it seems like a large crowd of panicking people and the struggle in the car is a sort of background vignette in a much wider scene of chaos. I second the WTF/FFS motion with regards to runners. Like JD says, it might as well be called Brad Pitts Zombie Adventure for all it has to do with the book. If you're gonna adapt a book at least honour the source material not just cash in on the name... Think I might adapt Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol - with jets planes and terrorists and some sort of airport siege at Easter.

[Neil]

I'm not a big fan of the rage-like movements, but I'm still open to giving the movie a chance. Agreed... Runners can be terrifying things. But if they star roaring like Godzilla, and their eyes change (contacts) straight away, I will not go!

[kidgloves]

Agreed... Runners can be terrifying things. But if they star roaring like Godzilla, and their eyes change (contacts) straight away, I will not go! Have you read/listened to WWZ yet Neil?

[Neil]

Have you read/listened to WWZ yet Neil? Oh yes... I know it has traditional Romero'esque zombies. That said, runners can be terrifying in their own right, but lack the subtlety of shamblers. In truth I don't have a problem with them as long as they remain plausible. So, people being killed by the virus within seconds (as seen in the clip above) seems OTT for me. And the moment I hear a zombie scream like a dinosaur, or its eyes change to something unhuman, count me out!

[AcesandEights]

[DjfunkmasterG]

LOOK. HE's A TWITCHER You guys need to seriously get over the fact the zombies run. If you want to even see more zombie related product you better support these films. The argument got old back in 2004, anyone who expected the zombies to shamble was setting themselves up for disappointment. Especially after 28 days later and Dawn 2004. Might I also add the zombies run in The Walking Dead (see episode #2)

[rongravy]

I don't like, but I can live with, runners but WTF was that guy doing? First he's doing some weird breakdancing moves, then bashing himself against a car. That looked pretty dumb.

[blind2d]

*sighs* And I bet they'll cut out all the stuff in China and Japan... Slags. Oh well, I'll still rent it. Might even buy the DVD.

[ProfessorChaos]

If this has running zombies I refuse to watch it. I don't care if the film wins an Academy Award, I won't watch it. It already looks like shit and sounds like it from everything reported about it, but changing from REAL zombies to running zombies would be the final nail in the coffin for me to even check it out on rental (which is what I'd be doing anyway as I won't spend $10 to see a movie in a theatre). The only thing this seems to have in common with the excellent novel is the name at this point. It should really be called something else as it is *NOT* "World War Z". I'm so damn sick and tired of running zombies. j.p. well said. i concur on all points. and dj, not trying to get into a pissing contest, but my main gripe is that the book didn't have runners, which worked well for many of the main scenes i wanted to see in an epic film. and i personally think that there's almost an over-saturation of silly zombie shit out there, this is just "another one for the fire".