Sunday, June 10, 2012

YEAH, BUT THE MOVIE WASN'T AS GOOD AS THE BOOK

 

BOOKS ABOUT TO BECOME MOVIES

WORLD WAR Z by Max Brooks

WORLD WAR Z

Status: Set for Australian release June 20, 2013

Who's involved: Marc Forster directing, with Brad Pitt, Matthew Fox, James Badge Dale, David Morse and more starring

Why you should read the book first: World War Z is a legitimately great book, and there’s a very good chance that the movie adaptation is going to screw it up royally. While certainly not the easiest book to make into a movie - as the whole story of the zombie apocalypse is told as an oral history after the fact– the film version seems drastically different than the source material to the point that we must wonder if we will even recognize the book inspiration inside of it. Hollywood is filled with tons of terrible zombie stories, but Brooks has created something really compelling and interesting with World War Z and it’s something that can best be appreciated on the page and in the imagination. For added fun, pick up the audiobook, which features the voices of actors like Alan Alda, Carl Reiner, Mark Hamill, Henry Rollins, John Turturro, and Rob Reiner.

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