I really enjoyed this book....it had its slow parts but for the most part it was fun mindless entertainment. I don't know how well it will translate into a movie though.

The book is formatted as a series of interviews, so I'm not really sure how they plan to turn it into a movie, because I can't imagine people sitting in a theater watching actors talk about zombies.  Maybe a series of flashbacks/recreations of the scenes being described in the book.

And they're going to have to leave a lot of the book out of the movie -- unless they want it to be 5 hours long.  I just hope they keep the bit about how everyone in North Korea simply disappeared just as the war broke out; it was one of the creepiest things I've ever read. 

Hobbs....

I don't see how you can call WWZ "Mindless Entertainment" !!!?????

It is arguably one of the most well thought out, and compelling zombie stories ever told. It is the essence of what makes a great zombie story, focusing on how humans handle the situation. I realize you are praising it, but it is NOWHERE near MINDLESS.

I also thought the pacing of the book was incredible... For being a series of interviews, it was a page turner, and I read it quicker than almost any book I've ever read.

Definitely NOT mindless! and it will translate fantastically to the silver screen.

Can't wait to see it.

I'm looking to see if this breaks the mold--so to speak--of the zombie film genre. It's post apocalyptic so what I heard was it was treated like "Children of Men" w/ zombies. This was more a character study of people dealing with a zombie outbreak and how "civilization" was changed forever completely. I'm dreading the thought Paramount wants to make this an "action-horror" flick. But if Max Brooks approves the new writer then there might be hope it won't be another cookie-cutter zombie film. Despite the lack of gore in the book this book scared the hell out of me.

The whole Zombie and Vampire motif has been overdone.  I would like to see someone push the concept of a techno-organic plague.

COD World at War Nazi Zombies movie would be better.

If Max Brooks approves, okay.  However, I hope they stop with the secomd writer.  If Terminator Salvation taught us anything its that with every new writer added to a project the quality of the end product nose dives.  Anytime I read that a film has had four or five or more writers, script doctors, etc. I have a bad feeling that is usually confirmed by a mediocre product.

Makeing this movie is easy.....it should be done Documentry style. Interviewing survivors, mixed with "news" fotage to show the zombies..... You could get anamazing cast, if done this way, after all each actor, for the most part, would only be doing interviews, its all about makeing it "beliveable" And good actors could make this a wicked watch. But they half to include the "actors" house attack....that was frck'n awsome. Maybe show iceland in the movie aswell(if you've read the book you'll understand.)

Gauley, its a Zombie story...to each their own but I've never thought Zombie stories were thought provoking.  It's fun mindless entertainment like a pop corn movie.

I really wanted to like this book.  I've always loved living dead lore.  But this book was absolutely retarded and defied common sense and basic logic.   And no, I don't mean the zombies or their behavior made no sense... I have suspension of disbelief.  I mean the human characters made no sense and the author's failure to understand physics and common sense was insulting.

Terribly over rated.

The concept of the book, stories from the zombie holcaust told from various points of view, is a great idea... unfortunately a great idea does not make a great book.