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World War Z (2012)
Director: Marc Forster
Synopsis
Another tricky book-to-screen adaptation, as genre-defying director Marc Forster (‘Monster’s Ball’, ‘Finding Neverland’) tackles Max ‘son of Mel’ Brooks’s fine, journalistic account of a zombie uprising. The book spans both years and continents to build a global picture of the titular war, and apparently the movie version intends to do the same, casting Brad Pitt as a UN envoy who travels the world in the aftermath of war, listening to survivors’ stories. A version of the script was leaked online back in 2008 to widespread acclaim, with one reader claiming it could be the first zombie flick to win Best Picture. And while that seems somewhat unlikely, if ‘World War Z’ does indeed prove to be a horror movie in the garb of a major studio prestige picture, it could be something very special indeed.
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