With a second World War Z movie greenlit at Paramount, one of last year’s most surprising hit films is set to become the first true franchise headlined by star Brad Pitt.Of course, part of the reason it was such a surprise to see it succeed was that its target audience were initially skeptical of a film that took much of what made Max Brooks’s best-selling novel — “an oral history of the zombie war” — and transformed it into a fairly typical action film.Brooks himself seemed somewhat ambivalent about the adaptation in his recent Reddit AMA interview, not particularly voicing any regrets over the way it came together but acknowledging that it’s hardly the same property as his book. He also admitted that he doesn’t know what he could bring to the table if asked to contribute to the film franchise.
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