Check Out This Bad-Ass World War Z Fan-Made Trailer!

If the actual movie adaptation of Max Brooks' excellent zombie novel World War Z (set to release next year) is even remotely as good as this amazing amateur teaser trailer posted on YouTube by one Roel Gerard, then we're going to be in for a real treat. Look for footage from the likes of 28 Weeks Later, I Am Legend, Dawn of the Dead '04, Diary of the Dead, Children of Men, Cloverfield and the Left 4 Dead video game intro, as well as a certain apocalyptic Doors song...

I personally loved Brooks' World War Z (a lot better than the more well-known by dry-as-hell Zombie Survival Guide), and can't wait for the film version. If you haven't read the book, then get out of my presence immediately... and don't come back till you've finished it!

*Thanks to loyal Vault Dweller Candize for pointing this one out!

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AICN Reviews Script for World War Z

When, oh when will this project get moved out of developmental hell? Despite the fact that even I have begun to suspect that the zombie sub-genre has petered out (my review of the Day of the Dead remake is soon-to-come), Max Brooks' World War Z is a novel I thoroughly enjoyed, a horror epic that could completely regenerate not just the subgenre, but the entire genre if done properly.

The venerable Moriarty of Ain't It Cool News has posted a review of the script based on the book, which was written by J. Michael Straczynski a year ago--not long after the novel was optioned by Brad Pitt's Plan B production company. Since the completion of the script, not a word has been heard about the project, but the AICN review is most promising. Not sure why they chose to review it now, other than the fact that they've been big Brooks supporters going back to his first work, the bland and vastly inferior Zombie Survival Guide.

Moriarty speculates as to possible directors (Peter Jackson, Sam Raimi, etc.), but the fact remains that nothing new is known. However, his review does reveal a lot about how the book's complex story--focusing on a series of testimonials recorded by a reporter from a series of witnesses in the wake of a worldwide Zombie War--would be treated on film. Keep your fingers crossed on this one, as it could be the Citizen Kane of gut-muncher flicks. Could insiders be getting cold feet due to oversaturation of the marketplace? Let's hope not.

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