WORLD WAR Z - Marc Forster talks about his Approach to Adapting the Book
Fans of Max Brook's zombie novel World War Z were all up in arms and ranting up a storm when the synopsis for the World War Z film had been released. As much as I enjoyed the book, I wondered how in the hell they were going to turn it into a movie, they had to make some kind of sense to it. I knew there was going to be big changes so I wasn't really surprised. They basically took the book and turned it into a story that would work for a movie, and I'm not all bent out of shape about it.
But for those of you looking for more of an explanation from the director of the film Marc Forster... here it is.
The idea, obviously the book is not written as a narrative, you try to take things from the book, but at same time you're changing certain things. I do feel we're trying to keep it in the spirit of the book because it's important.
We are doing our own film, telling our own story because we had to. But trying to still include as much as we can from the book.
He then goes on to talk about how the zombies move in the film saying,
In Max Brook's book they move in the George Romero fashion. I feel like we have a little bit different approach. But it doesn't exclude that they might not eventually be fashioned how George Romero's zombies move, it's just a little bit different approach. I think that will probably be the biggest discussions that there will be.
I've got no problems with what Forster and his team had to do to make this film work for the big screen, as long as it keeps the spirit of the book alive. As for how the zombies move, did you see that footage from the set of the zombies and how they change? That was awesome! So again you won't get any complaints from me. Now if the movie ends up being a piece of crap, then I'll complain about it. I just understand that changes needed to be made to make the book work for film.
What are your thoughts?
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The movie is scheduled for release Dec. 21, 2012. Here’s the official plot synopsis:
The story revolves around United Nations employee Gerry Lane (Pitt), who traverses the world in a race against time to stop the Zombie pandemic that is toppling armies and governments and threatening to decimate humanity itself. Enos plays Gerry’s wife Karen Lane; Kertesz is his comrade in arms, Segen.