The first trailer for director Marc Forster's highly anticipated World War Z has arrived. The film, which is set to open in theaters across the United States on June 21, is based on Max Brooks' novel and stars Brad Pitt, Mireille Enos, Eric West and David Morse.
In World War Z, a U.N. employee (Pitt) is racing against time and fate, as he travels the world trying to stop the outbreak of a deadly Zombie pandemic.
Sadly, it looks like they threw out the most interesting aspect of the book -- the multiple POVs. I was expecting something like "Traffic" or "Syriana". Instead, we get "I Am Legend II: Brad Pit Boogaloo".
If it does well it's intended to be multiple films. My guess is with OTHER main characters. Different locations, different stories, etc... I thought the trailer looked cool. The music was awesome.
Potential. I like how the zeds flow in waves. Appears to have more integrity and emotional weight than throwaways like 2012, and better CGI than the vampires gone half-@$$ed zombies of I am Legend.
This is in my current top five, along with Lincoln, Hitchcock, Django, and John Dies at the End.
There was only one book. World War Z, written by Max Brooks. This film doesn't look to resemble the book much, at all.
For the record, Max Brooks also wrote the Zombie Survival Guide, which is cleverly written not as a story, but as an actual survival guide were there ever a real world zombie apocalypse.
I may just wait for the home video release for this one. I believe in the writings of Max Brooks, not so much in the powerhouse that is Brad Pitt.
The trailer looks like this could be an interesting movie, but it's nothing like the book. Max Brooks zombies are slow not super duper tsunami fast. But who knows?
It looks more like what's what may happen between the world and the Muslims (Muslims being the zombie hordes). Truthfully one would really never guess it is about zombies going by the trailer. Anyway, faster than light zombies is just plain stupid - after all, they are rotting, and certain changes just happen to the body once it dies. But it is a Brad Pitt movie, and truthfully most of his films bomb - the guy has always sold more magazines he's appeared on the cover of, than movie tickets. I've always wondered how he has stayed on the business?
Can we judge a film by its trailer? Maybe, but we can judge the trailer. The CGI zombies look video-game awful and the trailer has an average shot length of less than one second. Terribly inept cinematography.
Average speed is good. But honestly these zombies are super fast. Each zombie should be what ever speed they
Were before they turned. Yeah this film hit top 3 for 2013
Say what you will about Brad Pitt, but he has done a rather fine job of picking movies over the years and he has avoided these type of big-budget CGI fests...until now. I don't plan on seeing this one, I'll stick with watching The Walking Dead, which isn't perfect itself but it does a good job using real people as zombies.
Not impressed by this trailer at all. Too much use of CGI, and a... super zombie horde? Seems too silly for me. I do like, however, how Mirelle Enos is in this, what with the news of a rumor that Netflix is in heavy talks to pickup The Killing for a third season. She's great in that show, and glad to see more of her!
Sooo...that was nothing like the book. Is there a better instance of someone getting hold of a popular title, giving its name a movie and removing everything that made the book awesome.
I remember when they were filming parts of this in Glasgow, will be interesting to see the final film and good to see another Zombie film at the cinema
The first trailer for director Marc Forster's highly anticipated World War Z has arrived. The film, which is set to open in theaters across the United States on June 21, is based on Max Brooks' novel and stars Brad Pitt, Mireille Enos, Eric West and David Morse. 
