Shambling fiends are present, but they take a backseat to human drama-think Romero’s Dawn of the Dead meets a Ken Burns documentary. Brooks’s creation is a seriocomic social satire on culture-run-amok and the sweeping changes in attitude and lifestyle that arise out of the literal ashes of a supernatural war. It isn’t just that the plot is different and most of the characters in the film appear nowhere in the book: the two World War Zs are on completely separate tonal wavelengths. It isn’t just that the plot is different and most of the characters in the film appear nowhere in the book: the two World War Zs are on completely separate tonal wavelengths.īut alas, this was no exaggeration: aside from one sequence and a few sprinkled elements here and there, Brooks’s World War Z and the film adaptation created by a host of writers and director Marc Forster are indeed two very, very different animals. So before I saw World War Z: The Movie, I thought Brooks was perhaps exaggerating a tad when he said the film bore no resemblance to his novel. So even when the filmmakers do a decent job adapting their work for the big screen, there’s going to be some nitpicking. Writers become deeply invested in their creations, and it's difficult to turn them over to someone else, basically giving up all control. And the master of horror isn’t the only one: Anthony Burgess also harbored a long-term beef against Kubrick for 'missing the mark' on A Clockwork Orange Ken Kesey disapproved of Milos Forman’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Alan Moore hates everything. Stephen King was famously pissed at Stanley Kubrick for decades after the director ‘massacred’ his novel, The Shining. Now, it’s fairly common for authors to dislike movie versions of their work. If fans were expecting a faithful page-to-screen translation, Brooks said, they would be disappointed. About two months ago, Max Brooks, author of World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War, publicly dissed the Hollywood adaptation now raking in the bucks at the box office, warning viewers that the film and his book had one thing in common: the title.
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