After a trailer for the trailer, a thousand reminders about when the trailer would be (save the date! for our commercial!), and a careful buzz-building period (which in practice just gave us more time to talk trash about how bad and not like the book it looked), the full trailer for World War Z, directed by Marc Forster, loosely based on the Max Brooks novel, is finally here. As someone who, unlike Burnsy, didn’t read the book or have much investment in this project one way or the other, it doesn’t look like the worst thing in the world. They clearly threw out the oral history conceit and just made it a traditional zombie apocalypse movie, so you can understand why someone hoping for “World War Z” would be pissed. But for the rest of us, it just looks like 28 Days Later with that guy from the Chanel commercial running around fighting people with a flowy scarf on. “Plans disappear, dreams take over… But wherever I go… F*CKING ZOMBIES, EVERYWHERE! RUNNNNNNN!”
Okay, so the CGI-ant people zombies at the end definitely don’t look so hot. As for the music, I like to think of this as “When Dub-Step Met BRAAAAHMs.”
Opens June 21st.
![[avatar]](http://p.uproxxcdn.com/photo/257/thumb)
![[image]](http://cdn.fd.uproxx.com/wp-content/thumbnails/130/110/2013/05/Wolverine-Tripod-150x150.jpg)
![[image]](http://cdn.fd.uproxx.com/wp-content/thumbnails/130/110/2013/05/Morgan-Freeman-last-vegas-150x150.jpg)
![[image]](http://cdn.fd.uproxx.com/wp-content/thumbnails/130/110/2013/05/if-i-showed-you-all-the-money-shots-in-pacific-rim-youd-have-a-70-minute-orgasm-filmdrunk-150x150.jpg)
![[image]](http://cdn.fd.uproxx.com/wp-content/thumbnails/130/110/2013/05/trailer-rapture-palooza-starring-craig-robinson-and-anna-kendrick-150x150.jpg)
this is why we can’t have nice things
“ohhhh, I love my precious books,and this trailer is worse than super-aids, wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh”
I hate you guys.
Sweet Brah, Skrillex remixed the inception theme
The company that made this fired me, so it looks like shit.
I have no connection to anyone associated with this movie and it still looks like shit.
“BUT WHAT ABOUT HIS BLAND WHITE FAMILY?” I had no idea that this is what World War Z was about. Did they explain why he’s the man for the job? I bet that’s interesting.
It’s the scarf, no one in the world can wear a scarf and fire a gun like he can.
Did Pitt just feel all angsty and want to “destroy something beautiful”? This is insulting. They shouldn’t even call this World War Z. It’s not World War Z. It’s taking something good and f*cking it ragged and throwing it back in your face screaming “HAHAHA look what I did to this thing you love, f*ggot! You can’t even *recognize* it! BOOSH!!!”
Calm down. It’s just a zombie book/movie. Jesus Christ
I love when people get all attached to shit that they have no connection with. If you’re buddy puts rims and a stupid paintjob on his car, do you flip out on him, and say “how could you do this to me, you can’t even recognize it.”
Grow the fuck up.
This trailer really inspired me to feel “meh”.
That’s funny, I didn’t even know I Am Legend 2 had gotten past the script writing phase.
Maybe when this movie tanks, HBO or Showtime can buy the rights from Pitt’s company and do it a little bit more justice.
Funny that the only hope for the subject matter is a totally-before-its-time “gritty” reboot…jesus this is a f*cking steamy sh*tty turd
It’s I am Legend, and that movie sucked, why would I want to see it again?
The CGI zombies look like a Full-Sail final exam…fast zombies aren’t horrible by default, but it’s f*cking worthless if you can’t visually isolate any of them…it’s like a pack of zebras running at the camera.
LOL at the Full-Sail comment. Their commercials are the WORST.
Do those air outside of Orlando? Because they’re hilarious.
Yeah, they air in Melbourne too and it’s awesome when they show you how YOU TOO can make video games with graphics from 90′s PC games.
Ive got a Doctorate from Full Sail and i cant wait to see this fine film.
I suppose they spent too much money on Brad Kroeger to even hire Ringling freshmen.
OMG It’s a horde of Goodwill mannequins COMING RIGHT FOR US!!!
Thank God they are moving the Constitution somewhere safe. Once the zombies are dealt with we’re gonna need a lot of gold and the only copy of the treasure map is printed on the back.
COTW
Speaking of, why the hell has Nicolas Cage not been in a zombie movie? They could just call it Nicolas Cage vs. Zombies and it would be one of the top 10 highest grossing movies of the year.
Similarly, in the context of this movie’s world, it must be kind of depressing to be the guy who has to come up with the Total Population Loss graphic during this worldwide tragedy. News shows gonna news, I guess. Unless it’s some government comeputer thing which is even lulzier. “Brad Pitt, get that scarf out of your eyes and check out these figures! You’re the only man for the job!”
If you put Nic Cage in a bearsuit and had him running across a post-apocalyptic hellscape punching zombies in the fucking face that would be THE GREATEST MOVE OF ALL FUCKING TIME.
Nic Cage was in a Rob Zombie fake trailer in Grindhouse… so kindof in a Zombie movie?
I don’t give a shit, I read all of Brooks zombie stuff. I see the Battle of Yonkers in there and it looks outstanding. Finally, some zombie stuff with a major budget. I’m going to watch this movie with my pants off.
I’m sort of with you on this. It’s clear that they’re going to smash in some of the book’s stories, and they’ll probably even work in some of the characters who appear in stories where they roll solo but will be re-purposed here to help Brad Pitt fight zombies. I don’t know and don’t really care too much. This will still be better than most zombie movies.
This shit looks like shit. Fuck you Brad Pitt.
This is terrible. The only thing like the book is the title. Thats disappointing.
World War Z is a pretty bad book for a movie adaptation, unless you take one of the stories and expand upon it. Wasn’t one of the early stories about a UN or some international person tracking the outbreak?
The book is an after action report composed by someone working for the UN.
I always said, if we had a slow-moving zombie apocalypse, I’d love it. We’d have fun with it. If it ends up being the runner-zombies, then we’re all probably fucked. Everyone knows zombies with momentum is bad news.
“World War Z: FUCK you, book readers”
If it was called “Dickshit Nine: Zombies, Brah” I’d think it was cool. But I agree, don’t take the name of something and not even try to replicate it.
Are we certain this isn’t the long awaited movie adaptation of Lemmings?
YES
Whatever nerds, this looks fun.
I’m with you bro…and I’m all not for these hipsters on here crying into their chai latte’s about a zombie movie. It’s a zombie movie, not a fucking classical play you guys perform in sucking each others taints making stupid ass puns.
Looks alright to me.
Bible thumping Zombie enthusiasts give regular Zombie enthusiasts a bad name.
Zombie nerd rage comments are to zombie movies as The Drudge Report is to news.
NEEEEEEEERRRRRD RAGE.
I was filled with nerd rage at first but I think I will like it now. No movie has done the scale that this appears to be working on justice. 28 days later has a character describing what it was like when the crowd turned. 28 weeks later has a few hundred people in a room turn… most movies deal with the aftermath and maybe there is a horde or something. Maybe they should be half as fast, but all the crowd piling after the initial WTF seems neat. Look at what happens at Target/Walmart on black Friday. If people turn into blood thirsty demon zombies in a fictional film I can kind of accept the concept of piling. The Battle of Yonkers will be fucking nuts.
Battle Los Angeles meets I Am Legend?
Those zombies remind me of the CGI creatures in I Am Legend. Looks like they have the same speed/movement/intelligence. Anyways, trailer is interesting. We haven’t seen a close up of a zombie so they might actually be anything involving a virus.
I read Max Brooks Zombie Survival Guide and it was… a guide. Not even funny. I don’t care much about the WWZ Book.
28 days/weeks dealt with the aftermath but it was actually scary as opposed to all other zombie apocalypse movies who are more funny than anything near scary.
Well, you did that wrong. Read WWZ, it’s not supposed to be funny.
Didn’t catch the slightest whiff of Chanel when I watched this trailer.
“When there’s no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth.”
Walk, motherfuckers. WALK. That’s the epic all-encompassing zombie-movie line. That’s the only one that matters. The dead will walk the earth. The dead won’t break out into a light jog the earth. The dead won’t fucking run the earth. And the goddamn dead won’t fucking flipping the bird at Usain Bolt as they blow by him over the last 10 meters the earth. They’ll fucking walk the earth. FUCK.
Man, I can just see it now, there’s a boardroom meeting at some major studio right now where some clueless fuck is saying “I know, let’s give the zombies a metro pass.”
Yeah, cause the most unbelievable thing about a movie with flesh-eating resurrected corpses is the fact that they can run………
If you don’t have any appreciation for the original Dead trilogy and the elements that make them great (i.e. the zombies walk, they don’t run) then you’re more than welcome to SHUT THE FUCK UP.
I NEVER SAID THAT I DON’T APPRECIATE THEM BUT FREAKING OUT OVER A NEW TAKE ON AN EXISTING GENRE IS NOT HELPING YOUR CASE THAT YOU ARE A SANE AND RATIONAL PERSON
WHO SAID I WAS MAKING A CASE FOR SANITY?! I’M POSTING ON MOTHERFUCKING UPROXX!!!1
this has nothing to do with Romero’s Dead movies. so it doesn’t play by those rules. let it go
Yeah, but the book did play by the slow-shambling-walking-dead of the Romero movies so, you know, fuck off, clownshoes.
World War Z has zombies . . . Zombie is a song by the Cranberries . . . cranberry sauce is a big hit at Thanksgiving, which is almost here . . . coincidence? I think not.
Conclusion? The Illuminati are conspiring to piss off the nerds and increase scarf and Chanel sales. C’mon people, it’s all right there.
Finally someone making some sense around here.
Brad Pitt as UN ambassador? So he’s playing himself? Is his skeletor wife a zombie then so he shacks up with the ginger?
This looks terrible. Not because the zombies are running. They ran in the Dawn of the Dead remake and that was Tits. The problem is that the CGI looks TERRIBLE. Like, worse than Playstation 1 graphics terrible. Also – the book version of World War z was constantly shifting perspective and there wasn’t one brave dad saving the world. This is Spielberg’s War of the Worlds remake with effects by Atari 2600 game coders.
Here’s a helpful resource which will aid all of you in expressing your thoughts about the trailer. [thesaurus.com]
Man, Shaun of the Dead was pretty decent, but you totally should have read the book… it was life-alteringly amazing, man. Changed my whole outlook on shit.
Shaun of the Dead was great for being the opposite of all the reasons that this looks like it will be terrible
If you were a fan of the book you would have been preparing yourself for the differences they would include in the movie from the second it was announced, the book’s unfilmable as a single movie. That being said, I don’t see why they even bothered to name it the same thing if they were going to disregard pretty much everything except for Yonkers. Dissapointed in it’s departure from the book, but I understand that anthology movies don’t really sell and they had to do something. If it wasn’t named World War Z most of the comments here would be different, I think. It looks pretty awesome for a zombie movie, but way off the mark for a World War Z movie.
Look, the zombie genre has been played out for years. Shawn of the Dead signalled the end of it, and Zombieland was the only other standout. There is a reason I don’t watch The Walking Dead. I’m sick of this shit and I LIKE movies with lots of violence. I’m just tired of this genre, I’m tired of real life zombie related firearms accessories, this shit is like the Macarena. It needs to end.
this.
Oh please, Transformers 3 Skrillex’ed the Inception trailer music before Skrillex even won a grammy. I don’t know if that last part’s true and I refuse to look it up.
Thank God that Brad and his family found that vintage camper perfectly lined up on the only cleared street out of NYC.
Everyone flipping out need to pump the breaks. WWZ the book covered a 40 year time span with multiple story lines that never connected outside of the zombie apocalypse. Hopefully we can enjoy this as the last “Hurrah” of zombie genre movies before they go the way of the vampire…
Actually, your point about the stories in the book not connecting is incorrect. There are a bunch that actually do overlap / intertwine. Most don’t though.
Regardless of my thoughts on the source material (moderately entertaining but simple read) I’m all for big production zombie/apocalypse films. At the same time there is usually a pretty low bar to jump in this genre to be successful.
The one thing that is strikingly annoying is the way they dressed up Brad Pitt (as Vince pointed out with the Chanel reference) as an upper middle class fashion friendly hipster.
Otherwise – Yay!
His wife is going to smoke 60 cartons of Marlboro while moping around like fucking mental patient, dragging him, for two seasons, into 70 wrong directions while somehow taking me along and stealing my time. Fuck you ginger lady.