Script Update: World War Z!

The way the internet moves these days, this already old news (5 days old!) but I thought I should share anyway. There's news about the feature film script adaptation of World War Z! I got real excited back in March 2007 when I read online that they had already started to adapt World War Z into a feature film script. So excited, I wrote an article about it. J. Michael Straczynski, the dude who created Babylon 5, is penning what may prove to be the bravest adaptation of a horror novel ever undertaken, not to mention the most epic zombie film of all time. World War Z, baby! You can't handle that much zombie flavor! Check out a quote from Straczynski that I quoted from a recent article on Shocktillyoudrop:

"Most zombie movies to this point have been small, focusing on a few people in a house. And this has got real scare. You're in India with hundreds of boats trying to get out of there with a tidal wave of zombies. The scale of what we’re doing here is phenomenal."

The real news, though, is that Straczynski is claiming to have remained extremely faithful to the source material. The nagging question on my mind was always whether or not they would include the main character in the film, the guy conducting the interviews in the novel. There would be so many amazing opporunities to fade and cut in between the stories and the people telling them! Check out the juiciest part of this story. I can't wait:

"Let's show the book being written. We follow this guy all over the world as he goes on these interviews, and he has his own personal story as well. You're cutting between the past and the present, how he got to this point."

- Read the article on Shocktillyoudrop.com
- Grab the book on paperback from Amazon.com