Sentences with phrase «zombie novel world»

Unlike Marvel, which knows it can premiere a mere snippet of Iron Man 3 Super Bowl teaser action and still be confident we'll be back for more, Paramount has more to prove with the adaptation of Max Brooks» zombie novel World War Z.

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By 2006, when Max Brooks published his novel «World War Z» (from which the movie is very loosely adapted), the worst has already happened: the zombies have been vanquished, but only after destroying a good bit of the world's populaWorld War Z» (from which the movie is very loosely adapted), the worst has already happened: the zombies have been vanquished, but only after destroying a good bit of the world's populaworld's population.

One of the problems «World War Z» has faced all along is that it looks like a high - concept zombie - apocalypse movie (adapted from Max Brooks» novel, told as a series of first - person accounts) but it's really something we don't see that often these days, an old - fashioned Hollywood star picture.

Marc Forster has signed up to direct an adaptation of World War Z, a bestselling novel about flesh - eating zombies who destroy the word

Paramount Pictures and Marc Forster's big - budget adaptation of Max Brooks» zombie - filled novel WORLD WAR Z looks viciously impressive despite word of script problems and...

Originally developed as a graphic novel, the show picks up where most zombie movies end: at the point where animated, flesh - eating corpses have spread across the world and threaten to end human civilization.

by Walter Chaw Marc Forster's World War Z, an adaptation of Max Brooks's cause célèbre novel (think Stephen Ambrose on the zombie apocalypse) that had a production so troubled the real surprise is Terry Gilliam had nothing to do with it, lands as half an idea, handsomely mounted in a really expensive crater.

2:00 p.m., Room 7AB — Max Brooks With the troubled «World War Z» getting extensive rewrites and reshoots, Paramount decided to skip Comic - Con with the project, but Max Brooks, author of the source novel, is hosting his own panel, described as «Zombie Survival 101,» where he'll talk about his career and give tips on how to make it through a zombie uprising.

Inspired by Max Brooks» 2006 post-apocalyptic novel «World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War,» the first film starred Pitt as a former United Nations investigator who must find a way to stop a global zombie pandemic.

For instance, I find it the strangest thing that in most every zombie novel, the protagonist wakes up in a hospital bed from a coma, to suddenly realize they're in a world full of zombies.

And they only explore the most widely known parts of the religion (like Voodoo dolls, zombies, witchcraft, etc.) My book is the first young adult novel to explore the dramatic world of the many Voodoo gods.

(He goes on to apologize that «there are no graphic novels of zombie dogs making crafts in a dystopian world» but adds, «Maybe next year?»)

But, hey, at least now the world has an unending stream of half - literate, endlessly derivative and redundant «military SF» hoo - rah junk, zombies of all stripes and levels of decomposition (both the characters and the prose), and tweener apocalypse novels that make you sincerely wish that the world would end to stem the flow of hackwork.

This trend probably all started when real - world bookstores started seeing big sales of a 2009 parody novel called Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (crediting Jane Austen as a co-author).

«It's one of the few times in history that technology has reinvigorated an art form rather than crushing it,» said Max Brooks, author of the zombie novel «World War Z,» which was released in May ahead of the Brad Pitt movie in an elaborate new audio edition with 40 cast members, including Alan Alda, John Turturro, and Martin Scorsese.

Elizabeth Ann Pierce once again takes us to the contemporary fantasy world of Just Another Day in Suburbia, this time with the tale of Muzak's first days as a zombie... And Then I Woke Up Dead A «Suburbia» short novel.

While the television show is a gritty adaptation of «The Walking Dead» graphic novels, the games are an original story set in the same zombie - infested world.