I would love for this to be a kind of grand, collaborative TV project, where different directors and show creators each give their own take on a particular “episode” pulled from a chapter, maybe 30-45 minutes long. In short, the best dozen or so of these chapters could be siphoned from the book and put to TV, ignoring whatever it is that Hollywood already attempted to do with the bits and pieces, largely abandoning most in the process. Smaller scale stories tell about how astronauts survived in the International Space Station, or how a slothful Japanese teenager found the strength to escape from his apartment by climbing down the towering building, dodging zombies on each floor. North Korea’s population simply disappears. The stories created out of this are amazing. It was not an adaptation of World War Z, it simply shared the central topic of zombies taking over the world on a massive scale, something we only see a snippet of in shows like The Walking Dead.įor those who haven’t read the book, World War Z has a very interesting format where it’s told like a long string of vaguely interconnected short stories, each talking about a different aspect of the worldwide zombie epidemic. This could have made the film an unequivocal disaster, but honestly, it wasn’t a bad zombie movie in its own right. Though the Brad Pitt-vehicle borrowed the title and one or two concepts from the original Brooks book, fans of the novel will known that the two shared precious little else in common. Yes, yes, I know, World War Z was already made into a blockbuster Hollywood film. And I think that book is tailor-made for a prestige TV miniseries. I’ve read and watched The Walking Dead for years now, but I still think it has yet to come close to the only true masterpiece of zombie fiction of our time, Max Brooks’ World War Z. Zombies are more or less a backdrop, scenery that occasionally lashes out with a claw or bite. Rather, it’s about how people interact with people after the world ends. And yet, The Walking Dead is only rarely about zombies anymore.
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