Zombie Genere Fans

[rstel01]

World War Z by Max Brooks (his prior book was the zombie survival guide)

It is off the chart excellent!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_war_z

The book is a first person narrative from survivors of "World War Z".

I got the abridged audio book (itunes) and it is riveting.

He also holds fast and true to the Romero rules of Zombies (none of this fast running ninja modern zombie bs)

[maddafinga]

Read it and the manual several times, both excellent.  WWZ is probably the best thing in the genre ever.  So so so much better than it needed to be, well thought out and unbelievably real in the way that people reacted and behaved.  It's just perfect.  Have you read the end part where he talks about the sewers and catacombs underneath Paris?  I can't wait to see what they do with the movie once that gets finished.  It would be hard to do, but man, if they could pull it off, wow!

[MadHatter]

Own it, read it, live it. It's generally the topic of conversation at my house when my buddies show up (Bunch of vets with too much time and alcohol). We actually just finalized a Z-Day plan (north to Alaska). I'm assuming you read the story of the Chinese sub?

[hunter128]

great books, both of them.

[Sabre]

According to www.imdb.com, the movie is due out in 2010; however, there's almost no info about it, which there should be at this point.  It has been listed as "In development" for the better part of a year now.  I found a script summary on-line a while back, and was not happy to learn that these are the running zombies (that's not 100% certain, as it was an early version of the script), and that they can bust through car windows (both of which go against what the book said).  Of course, not all of the stories in the book could possibly be covered in a two-hour movie, though some of the more important ones mentioned are the Battle for Yonkers, "The Great Panic" traffic jam in America, and the "Patient Zero" story in China at the very beginning.  Apparently, there are a few flash-back scenes involving the guy supposedly compiling the report that forms the basis of the book, which help explain why he took on the assignment.  In fact, it appears that this will not be a documentary-style movie, but rather will have the central charactor doing the interviews, which will fad in and out of flashbacks.

[maddafinga]

According to www.imdb.com, the movie is due out in 2010; however, there's almost no info about it, which there should be at this point.  It has been listed as "In development" for the better part of a year now.  I found a script summary on-line a while back, and was not happy to learn that these are the running zombies (that's not 100% certain, as it was an early version of the script), and that they can bust through car windows (both of which go against what the book said).  Of course, not all of the stories in the book could possibly be covered in a two-hour movie, though some of the more important ones mentioned are the Battle for Yonkers, "The Great Panic" traffic jam in America, and the "Patient Zero" story in China at the very beginning.  Apparently, there are a few flash-back scenes involving the guy supposedly compiling the report that forms the basis of the book, which help explain why he took on the assignment.  In fact, it appears that this will not be a documentary-style movie, but rather will have the central charactor doing the interviews, which will fad in and out of flashbacks.

Hmm, that doesn't sound terribly promising.  A while back I was at Max Brooks website and he mentioned reading the latest draft of the script and said that he was very happy with it.  I felt pretty encouraged by that.  The thing about script drafts is that it'll be rewritten several times till the money people are satisfied with it.  It could be that they're going to stick to the one that you're read online, but I'm hopeful that it'll still evolve.  Of course, even if they totally screw it up, I'll still have the book.   

I want to get the Reported Outbreaks graphic novel that came out recently.

You know that Max Brooks, the author of these so much better than they had to be books, is the son of Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft.  Talented family.