
Tomorrow night, Entertainment Tonight is going to rock our worlds with the exclusive first look at the trailer for World War Z, which is based on the name of the best-selling book by Max Brooks. Directed by Marc Forster and starring Brad Pitt, Matthew Fox and a bunch of people who will be eaten, the film revolves around this plot: “A U.N. employee is racing against time and fate, as he travels the world trying to stop the outbreak of a deadly Zombie pandemic.”
That, of course, was not the plot of the book, but we have been there and done that to death and brought it back to life so it could eat our brains before we did it to death again. Since its inception, this book-to-film process has been a complete mess, and it has reportedly cost Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment and the other production companies north of $150 million to get to a point at which it is simply acceptable to finally release.
But hey, check out the sweet zombie wave coming down those stairs. That’s pretty cool, right?
As a huge fan of this book, I’ve gone from being elated by the fact that Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio were fighting over this project to cautious trepidation at the fact that the film wouldn’t resemble the book in any manner except “BRAAAAAAINS” to hesitant relief that Damon Lindelof might fix a reportedly terrible script to “Oh just get this f*cking thing over with already” because Pitt and Forster weren’t even speaking anymore.
We’re now in the “Let’s look at 30 seconds of footage and criticize the hell out of it” phase of this film’s miserable existence. Just based on the budget woes alone, I figured it was obvious why Brad Pitt was now pimping Chanel and starting his own furniture line, but this video makes it all so much clearer now.



Ermmm…Running zombies? I am disappoint.
Running zombies are gayer than a sack of cocks.
Correction, a bag of dicks.
In a post walking dead entertainment world no one is going to buy running zombies. Also, enough with the keffiyeh scarf
So we’ve gone from zombies to the “infected” from 28 Days/Weeks Later? Apparently the crushing disappointment for this knows no bounds.
Also, the CGI is turrrrrible.
Over it. Bring on Terrence Howard in Zone One already.
I loved the book. I hate the shit out of this.
All that running and his scarf stays securely in place. That’s talent.
Uhhh already dissapointed, Book rocked, movie looks like a bad Scyfy movie like Sharktapus vs Pirahana-don.
There is no such thing as a bad Syfy movie.
“Hey! Heres a great idea! Instead of actually animating the zombies or hiring actors, lets just animate them with fluid physics!”
I’ve come to the realization now that if zombies did actually come to life they would kill most of us due to our own indifference.
“Zombies? Yeah that’s original”
*gets eaten alive*
“Laaaaaaaaaaaame”
+Brrrraaaaaiiiiiinnnnnnnnnsssssss
So when is this? ET didn’t say the word THURSDAY enough in the promo. Is it on Friday?
Wait, he named his production company after a birth control pill?
Why do they keep letting people who don’t get zombie movies make zombie movies? A good zombie movie is Only a disaster movie! Like any disaster movie, its mostly about the people. The disaster just happens to be zombies. I can’t think of any reason a zombie movie needs that much CGI. The most they could need would be editing a cityscape to look devastated or something.
Because they all thought that the best disaster movie was 2012.
I’m a sucker for zombie or other alpacalyptic movies. That being said I thought the book was written at an eighth grade level. This will be a fairly standard flick – just hope the explosions are plentiful enough to keep me interested.
It does look a bit like they took the zombie crowd from The Mummy and sped up the footage.
Imhotep! Imhotep! Imhotep!
this looks fine to me from that short clip
Sure… but not as a World War Z movie. By all accounts (and based on those few seconds of footage) it’s VASTLY different from the rather excellent book. I’m not even a big zombie fan and I loved the book. This looks pretty disappointing.
i didn’t read the book, so i’m just looking at it as a popcorn flick
i’m not against fast moving zombies but those look fucking stupid
The problem isn’t the speed of the zombies or the fx or background problems between Pitt & Foster, it’s that they took the central conceit of the book (an interviewer, after the war, globally documenting the key turning points in a series of vignettes that shift in style from chapter to chapter) and replaced it with a generic zombie story that reminded me of the flashbacks in I Am Legend more than anything else. I think we’ve all seen this movie, and that’s a bummer.
+1, this is exactly why this movie will suck, its not original its just a cheesy zombie flick with Brad Pitt now
Brad Pitt should have actually read “World War Z,” along with “The Good War” (the book WWZ seems to be based on).
Sigh. The book was absolutely brilliant. YOU ALREADY HAD EVERYTHING YOU NEEDED THERE, YOU JUST HAD TO FILM IT. Morons.
The most galling thing is that when I think of international problem-solvers, the UN is definitely at the top of my list.
So. Much. Shitty. CGI.
So the zombies act like a sentient tsunami wave, just rolling over stuff?