Keth

I just watched the last house on the left remake and it was pretty cool. i didnt really dig the original so maybe that's why. plus i'm not a stickler for remakes lol. good movie though

reymon14 must be shared with the world. lol

i didnt see any of these

the book of eli

daybreakers

surrogates

Lol i never realized what a prick Link was

I was initially lured into this thread with the rpomise of Call of Duty in Space. I'd play that.

hell, why not? Call of Duty: Future Warfare...... I can see it

Terrance and Phillip vs. Aliens from Outer Space - Aliens from outer space land in Canada and start to take the population over by abducting them and implanting pea-sized devices in their heads. The aliens (and the devices) have one weakness (two really as you find out later on with the unlockable queef sisters) : methane. Your objective is simple, destroy the devices, free the people, and make the aliens wish they'd never set foot in Canada. You also get scored based on fart originality. (Not doing the same ones over and over, etc.)

hmmmm, intriguing. lol that could actually take off. i would like to see another south park FPS

dude i remember being super psyched about that dead auto! it was very disappointing to hear it wasnt happening. and a big fuck yes to shoot em up

myself, i would like to make a sandbox zombie experience. it would start as the outbreak begins. you could go multiple routes. go it alone or make a team. find shelter ranging from hotels, to abandoned homes, to (thats right) prisons. find makeshift weapons. use stealth against the undead, or go on a full assault to wipe out a general area. think fallout3 meets the zombie survival guide meets command and conquer. i'd prefer 3rd person, but 1st person would make for an unusual experience. the area would have to be huge and diverse. at least the size of san andreas. Lol as for other ideas, not everything needs to super logical. like a rough cut of some cool features you'd like to see

I never thought ol' max could ever look more pissed off, but I was wrong. lol he looks like a bald wolverine. Go Max! there can never be too much bullet time

Haha! id like some purell. Sweet!

When's Max Brooks writing a new book?!

i think they are just adapting the recorded attacks into comic fom. but i can see a biography about the 1st zombie hunter that was mentioned in there happening. that would make a cool story

fuck yes! November 26th I believe

you cant honeslty say there's not room for this to go down.

i mean, we could have shit zombies on a plane once a month and there'd still be room for romero, the 28 days series, and anything by max brooks, my opinion.

well said. lol even the real low budget ones will be good once in a while. zombies anonymous was a good one. id like a shaun of the dead 2 myself. there will never be too many zombies the zombie survival guide recorded attacks comic comes out soon too

World War Z Movie Details Revealed - Children of Men With Zombies?

March 27, 2008

Source: AICN

by Alex Billington

 

 

One day prior to the exact day last year that we first announced Max Brooks' World War Z was being adapted, we finally hear some details on how the movie will play out. I remember first writing the news and becoming immediately excited despite having not actually read the book. And over the last year I've run into countless people who keeping telling me how great the book is. The script was written by comic book author J. Michael Straczynski, who most recently wrote Clint Eastwood's Changeling and was one of the creators of "Babylon 5". AICN just got their hands on the finished script and have reported back with a very positive reaction.

Moriarty's enthusiasm for Straczynski's script is through the roof. "I love this script. Love every dark, somber, upsetting page of it. This is a horror epic, a serious, sober-minded adult picture waiting to be made, and it's one of the best pieces of screenwriting craft I've encountered in a while." Before we get into the meat of the movie, though, let's take a look at the book again so we're clear on what it actually contains. "The book is an oral history of the great zombie wars, compiled by a nameless editor as part of a government report."

 

Ten years after the human victory over the world wide Zombie epidemic, referred to as World War Z, Max Brooks scours the world collecting the stories and experiences of those who have survived the conflict that almost eradicated humanity.

 

It is in essence just oral recollections from survivors of World War Z. This is not your typical zombie book and this won't be your typical zombie movie. Moriarty goes as far as to call the movie potentially "a genre-defining piece of work" that could even get people "arguing about whether or not a zombie movie qualifies as Best Picture material." Wow, that's quite a powerful statement, but then again, we don't even know what to expect yet. It's time to get into the details.

 

"In the first five pages, we see GERRY LANE collecting stories, and the first two interviews are with a flight attendant and a border guard. Both manage to play as horror shock beats, but the way they're told also sets the tone right away… JMS is after the human truth underneath the horror, and in a way, that makes it much, much harder to take."

 

From what I can interpret, the movie follows this particular archiver / journalist, named Gerry Lane (who might be played Brad Pitt), around as he travels the world conducting interviews with survivors. Again, from what I can interpret, it's almost like a documentary, but set in a post-zombie-apocalyptic world with much more to it than just talking heads.

 

"The world of the film reminds me of CHILDREN OF MEN on the page. Realistic but set in the near-future, in the aftermath of the zombie wars. We see a flashback to Gerry being given his assignment to write a report about 'where the system worked, where it didn't, how and in what ways the various organizational infrastructures failed.' It's a politically shitty job because no one wants to know that they were responsible for anything that went wrong. Gerry's hesitant because it's going to take at least six months away from his family, just as the world is starting to right itself. He takes the job, and as he travels to his first interview, we see how hard travel has become. I hate going through airport security these days, but at least I don't have to strip naked and subject myself to a blood test. Yet."

 

Moriarty goes on to describe Gerry's first interview with Dr. Tsai in China. In addition, he praises Straczynski for doing "a great job of etching the details of a world that has already faced its darkest moments and is now trying to put things back in order." What it sounds like the movie is really becoming is one that, while recalling some of the horrific moments from World War Z, instead focuses on the post-apocalyptic world that the survivors now all live in.

 

"Tsai's account of his first encounter with zombies at New Dachang is awful and horrific, and right away, it's apparent that a combination of bureaucracy and military strategy is responsible for a sort of passive evil, and Tsai feels enormous guilt about it. He leads Gerry to his next interview, which leads him to his next, and one of the things that the script does so well is depict survivors who are starting to wonder if survival is a victory of any kind. There's a story about black market organs that is just brutal, an off-the-record conversation with a CIA friend, and an insane beach sequence that I can't wait to see on film. All in the first 50 pages."

 

My next question, which Moriarty doesn't seem to answer, is whether each of these interviews turns into a flashback that is depicted on screen. Or whether we just get the talking head plus some sort of other dynamic imagery. I'm guessing, considering this was described as "epic", that each of the stories we hear will indeed be shown. As in, a post-World War Z narrative that is weaved with stories from the past that, if directed correctly, could be fashioned into an incredibly fulfilling look at the world before, during, and after World War Z.

 

While Moriarty does mention that this was a draft dated April 2007, it did feel complete enough to go into production right away. So, as always, don't take anything you read in here as solid fact, but rather a report from someone who read a draft of a script that was over 11 months old. The key point here is that the direction the movie seems to be heading is absolutely brilliant. I wish I could have read the script myself, but for now we'll have to go on Moriarty's word.

 

We haven't heard any updates recently, but the film isn't in production and is still looking for a director. Hopefully someone as amazing as Children of Men's Alfonso Cuarón takes on this project - because it couldn't succeed without them.

 

Does this sound like J. Michael Straczynski has pulled off a brilliant script for a challenging adaptation? Or is this taking it too far for something as mundane as a zombie movie?

Its somethin!

Oh come on, Preacher isn't half as controversial as its "outlaw" fans want to believe, with the exception of bad taste (the likes of which Peter Jackson and Eli Roth have gotten away with countless times), anti-religious points of view (Like half the shit on TV), and the fact that Preacher has slipped under the radar despite the fact that The Golden Compass was practically hanged for the same "Let's kill God" message and even then it was a rather dull roar for a CHILDREN'S book. Preacher wouldn't be so poorly received, the worst thing in it is Meat Woman and even THAT same as appeared in Grindhouse. As a TV show (even a cable TV show) it seems a bit tough, but as a movie it would work fine. The only thing I could see forcing it to NC-17 is the Gomorrah people, which to me always felt forced and has no business in the movie, the sex couple is another problem but another unnecessary thing as well.

the golden compass kicked ass

yeah the whole sex party thing wouldnt work onscreen.

I dunno. Masada followed by

Cassidys origin in the beginning of the next movie

. Havent thought this through so dont hold me to any of this but I dont see it working as just one movie.

hopefully, when/if the movie actually, officially, no matter what, happens it won't be just one movie. But Sam Mendes is a good director so hopefully the screenwriter that does this has some chops as well so everything falls well into place. but thats wishful thinking considering the controversial aspects of Preacher.

The whole business at Masada is a little climactic though. I couldnt imagine how that would work in the middle of a movie and not the end.

thats a good point but

was pretty climactic as well, not to mention a nice, bloody, extended

He doesn't really pop in till season 2 or 3 and even then he's pretty infrequent, stick to some of the others on the list. Pet Semetery 2 is a piece of shit, but I assure you his performance makes the whole thing worthwhile, the same goes for Pathfinder.

yeah that dude was pretty cool in pathfinder and that movie sucked big balls

i think the saint argument is a great example of how, no matter how much the fans want it, a preacher movie shouldnt happen.

yeah the saint is most definitely more pissed than annoyed. the guy

i think thats a little more than an annoyance. lol

clint is still alive, asshole!

 

did i totally miss this? when was Mendes' name attached? i gotta go look him up, i only knows American Beauty.

He also directed road to perdition as well

Haha never said it was a good idea

i think clint should pull a raging bull and do dark knight returns, but thats for another thread lol. ive heard rumors of nick nolte as saint, but they were of the faintest. as long as samuel mutha fuckin jackson doesnt do it........

here's some Preacher movie news that i wasnt sure how many have heard about this but it never hurts to post.

move over reverend custer!