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The uncertainty continues to grow surrounding the current status of Marc Forster’s big screen adaptation of Max Brooks’ epic zombie novel, World War Z.
The recent buzz was that Damon Lindelof (Prometheus, Star Trek) had been drafted in to re-write the ending of the troubled film, however, Deadline have reported that it is, in fact, Drew [...]
There has been much controversy and criticism of Marc Forster’s World War Z; the project hasn’t been faithful to the source material, the release date delayed by 6 months and the recent news that extensive reshoots were underway. Even so, we here at AndyErupts are still eagerly awaiting seeing what the film adaptation of Max [...]
On this day in horror…
1972 sees the birth of the author Max Brooks who is the man behind the successful post-apocalyptic horror novel World War Z; which has been adapted for the big screen by Brad Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment company and is slated for release in summer 2013.
1992. Alien 3 gets its US theatrical [...]
Andy, being the good sort that he is and knowing what I like to read, alerted me to the release of Closure, Limited and other zombie tales by Max Brooks, the man behind World War Z, one of my favourite books EVER.
Armed with this info from Andy, I tracked it down online and bought it [...]
Although I am not personally looking forward to the film, I am grateful to World War Z for filming in my home town of Glasgow as my articles on the Glasgow shoot in August earned my blossoming little blog a lot of views, very early on in it’s existence.
News on the project had been kind [...]
With filming for Marc Forster’s big screen adaptation of Max Brooks’ World War Z drawing to a close in Glasgow, it’s safe to say that the past couple of weeks have been pretty exciting for Glasgow and it’s residents and it seems that almost every one of it’s near 600,ooo residents, knows someone involved, somehow.
Well [...]
Glasgow is STILL very much gripped by World War Z fever and with little under a week of filming remaining, George Square is still done up to the nines in it’s American finery. The stars and stripes are still flying over the city and Brad Pitt, Marc Forster and co are still creeping about.
Facebook groups have [...]
Glasgow’s streets can often be found crawling with slow moving shambling zombies, especially at 3 am on a Sunday morning but we have never seen anything like this.
Yes sir, Marc Forster’s World War Z has most definitely rolled into town and we have a heap of stills showing my beloved George Square and it’s surrounding [...]
Given the recent casting news and impending shoot of the film version of ‘World War Z’, I thought it only appropriate to do a short review of the book before the film gets made.
For those of you who aren’t aware, WWZ is set ten years after a zombie apocalypse has all but destroyed humanity on [...]