Not a lot of time to make the budget back...
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2short2care,
Posted on: 2011-08-10 14:55 in Comic and Hero-Villain Culture
Lots of mockery will occur on January 2013.
The first step in being sane is to admit that you are insane.
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Given the script, there really aren't.
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Originally Posted by Dark One
World War Z to open at the end of December, 2012. Read one thing saying it was opening on the 21st. Could be worse things to be doing that watching WWZ when the world goes kaflooey, I guess...
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Massive solar flares to attack in early 2013 according to NASA, perhaps as early as December 2012.
Dun dun dunnnn.
The Alt Alphabet ~ OPC: Other People's Characters ~ Terrific Screenshots of Cool ~ Superhero Fiction
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You really want to watch a movie that has no sense of danger for the main characters since the book takes the form of flashbacks, as the reporter/chronicler just goes around talking to people about what happened? You know the people that he's talking to survived, so no real threat to them. Besides, the book takes place after the zompocalypse, rather than in it, which is what the movie is about.
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Originally Posted by Cass_
Given the script, there really aren't.
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Have you ever seen those shows on 20/20 and Dateline where they interview people after a particularly horrendous crime? They do a brilliant job of building suspense and throwing in twists even though you already "know" what happened. The trick is to leave just a little bit back, then drop a whammy in there for a reversal.|
Originally Posted by Dark One
You really want to watch a movie that has no sense of danger for the main characters since the book takes the form of flashbacks, as the reporter/chronicler just goes around talking to people about what happened? You know the people that he's talking to survived, so no real threat to them. Besides, the book takes place after the zompocalypse, rather than in it, which is what the movie is about.
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Constructed correctly, WWZ could pull that same trick off admirably.
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The thing about zombie movies is that you never know who is going to make it or who is going to die. Doing the flashback route, it removes the urgency of the situation and that mentioned nature. With the flashbacks, the zompocalypse is done. It's over. It's people mopping up, reminiscing, and trying to get some semblence of society back. Instead, they've opted for the more immediate and visceral impact of the zompocalypse as it's happening, rather than after-the-fact and the people having time to reflect.
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Originally Posted by Ironik
Have you ever seen those shows on 20/20 and Dateline where they interview people after a particularly horrendous crime? They do a brilliant job of building suspense and throwing in twists even though you already "know" what happened. The trick is to leave just a little bit back, then drop a whammy in there for a reversal.
Constructed correctly, WWZ could pull that same trick off admirably. |
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Ah, I thought they were following the book's format.|
Originally Posted by Dark One
The thing about zombie movies is that you never know who is going to make it or who is going to die. Doing the flashback route, it removes the urgency of the situation and that mentioned nature. With the flashbacks, the zompocalypse is done. It's over. It's people mopping up, reminiscing, and trying to get some semblence of society back. Instead, they've opted for the more immediate and visceral impact of the zompocalypse as it's happening, rather than after-the-fact and the people having time to reflect.
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I've been wanting to do a Dateline-style genre picture for quite some time, using interviews and crime scene photos the way they do. The problem is getting just the right mix and choosing the right monster. Zombies, aliens and vampires are overdone (and vamps probably wouldn't show up on camera) and werewolves ends up coming across like one of those lame Monster Hunter shows.
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For a tv show, that would work. But when you want people to pay a decent sum to see a movie in a theater, you want some immediacy to the flick.|
Originally Posted by Ironik
Ah, I thought they were following the book's format.
I've been wanting to do a Dateline-style genre picture for quite some time, using interviews and crime scene photos the way they do. The problem is getting just the right mix and choosing the right monster. Zombies, aliens and vampires are overdone (and vamps probably wouldn't show up on camera) and werewolves ends up coming across like one of those lame Monster Hunter shows. |
In a way, they are following the events in the book, but rather than what amounts to sitting around a campfire, they are having the chronicler in the action. So long as they get the Battle of Yonkers and Rahj-Singh done correctly, I'll be happy. Besides, having to "set-up" the flashbacks wastes valuable zombie-shootin' time.
Well now I need to read this even sooner. I had planned to but "priorities" got in the way. Sounds awesome.
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Kind of like what we did on January 2nd 2000 and on Febuary 3rd 2002 and on March 4th 2003 and especially on June 7th 2006, it's almost like if we don't have a specific time the world is gonna end we don't have a reason to live, kinda ironic don't ya think.
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Originally Posted by starphoenix
Lots of mockery will occur on January 2013.
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Cancel the kitchen scraps for widows and lepers, no more merciful beheadings and call off christmas!
YSK = Apocalypse Not.
2012 = Apocalypse Not.
2040 = Alleged year giant meteor hits Earth, Apocalypse........?
Never read the book, but read a bit about it on wikipedia. If you want to do the film like the book, but still give it urgency, forego the interview angle and instead go with "found footage" ala Blair Witch or Cloverfield, or base it on the discovery of a journal.
The way they are describing the movie now, it sounds like it's going to be another run of the mill zombie flick. Not that that's a bad thing necessarily, but it sounds like the book was a departure from that.
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One of these doomsday nutballs will come to the conclusion that if they want their doomsday prophesy fulfilled, then they have to do it themselves. Seems like we had the capability to destroy ourselves for decades.
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Originally Posted by 2short2care
Kind of like what we did on January 2nd 2000 and on Febuary 3rd 2002 and on March 4th 2003 and especially on June 7th 2006, it's almost like if we don't have a specific time the world is gonna end we don't have a reason to live, kinda ironic don't ya think.
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The first step in being sane is to admit that you are insane.
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Just push the red button......
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Originally Posted by starphoenix
One of these doomsday nutballs will come to the conclusion that if they want their doomsday prophesy fulfilled, then they have to do it themselves. Seems like we had the capability to destroy ourselves for decades.
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World War Z to open at the end of December, 2012. Read one thing saying it was opening on the 21st. Could be worse things to be doing that watching WWZ when the world goes kaflooey, I guess...
