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by **LOLtron** » Thu Nov 08, 2012 9:22 pm

World War Z Trailer Is Here

Trailer for the upcoming movie based on the popular Max Brooks novel.

Source: The Trailer for World War Z, Starring Brad Pitt!

We teased you with a preview previously, now the actual World War Z trailer is out.

The movie is based on the novel "World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War" and stars Brad Pitt as Gerry Lane who travels around the world in an attempt to stop a zombie pandemic. World War Z is directed by Marc Forster and will be released on June 21, 2013.

Written or Contributed by sdsichero

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by **xaraan** » Fri Nov 09, 2012 12:41 am

Thank you SD, was hoping someone was paying attention to this trailer launch today (as I was still mostly away with visiting parents all day)

by **sdsichero** » Fri Nov 09, 2012 12:52 am

xaraan wrote:Thank you SD, was hoping someone was paying attention to this trailer launch today (as I was still mostly away with visiting parents all day)

Thanks. Sorry if I stepped on your toes. I waited a bit before posting it. Thanks for fixing the preview art (I'm assuming your fixed it).

by **syxxpakk** » Fri Nov 09, 2012 10:07 am

Why even call it World War Z? I guess to just cash in on the name.

by **xaraan** » Fri Nov 09, 2012 1:31 pm

sdsichero wrote:
Thanks. Sorry if I stepped on your toes. I waited a bit before posting it. Thanks for fixing the preview art (I'm assuming your fixed it).

nah, I asked the other staff to keep an eye out b/c i was going to be out most of thursday, but nobody paid attention... so good thing you were

by **Black_Orchid** » Fri Nov 09, 2012 6:58 pm

And now I have enough nightmare fuel for a year. A tidal wave of the undead, it's like all the plagues wrapped in one.

by **mrorangesoda** » Fri Nov 09, 2012 9:24 pm

syxxpakk wrote:Why even call it World War Z? I guess to just cash in on the name.

And it's a good title. I was hoping for something that felt a little more docu-drama- interviews with multiple protagonists introducing flashbacks to them during the war. I expect to much out of hollywood apparently.

by **Cernunnos** » Fri Nov 09, 2012 9:28 pm

syxxpakk wrote:Why even call it World War Z? I guess to just cash in on the name.

Agreed. Based on the trailer, it looks like they completely ignored the source material and made a generic action/disaster/zombie movie. :smt011

by **syxxpakk** » Fri Nov 09, 2012 11:50 pm

I get that sometimes you have to change things up. But when you go so far as to change even how the zombies behave, what's the freaking point? IIRC, the zombies in WWZ were shamblers, not running-tidal-waves.

by **Chris** » Fri Nov 09, 2012 11:56 pm

I generally don't mind when adaptations don't stick closely to the source material. But this just seems to be something COMPLETELY different.

I know the documentary/oral history format of the book would've been difficult to do with so many stories.. but you could've easily done something sort of like the first half of District 9, where they kept cutting into the videotaped interviews, and just maybe followed 1-3 stories rather than dozens.. maybe tying them all together so it'd be a singular story or something, for movie purposes.. but still keeping that oral history/interview format.

Instead, they decided to make a disaster porn movie with really bad CGI on the swarms of zombies, and Brad Pitt out to save the world.

by **misac** » Sat Nov 10, 2012 11:55 am

syxxpakk wrote:I get that sometimes you have to change things up. But when you go so far as to change even how the zombies behave, what's the freaking point? IIRC, the zombies in WWZ were shamblers, not running-tidal-waves.

Yeah, the super zombies is my major gripe against this.

I'm kind of bummed they changed it so much, all the different scenarios would have been cool. That said, I think it looks pretty good.