WORLD WAR Z (for fans of The Zombie Survival Guide)
Posted: Sun Jul 02, 2006 10:21 pm
from Fangoria.com:
Max Brooks' ZOMBIE SURVIVAL GUIDE sequel
Former SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE writer Max Brooks has a follow-up book to his best-selling ZOMBIE SURVIVAL GUIDE due early next fall from Random House. Titled WORLD WAR Z, the tome is another deadpan look at the undead genre. “WORLD WAR Z is an oral history of the future zombie war,” Brooks tells Fango. “The idea is that 10 years after the great global zombie epidemic, I go around the world as a reporter and interview survivors. The book is a serious-intentioned collection of their stories. All the rules of THE ZOMBIE SURVIVAL GUIDE apply here. Basically, anyone who has read the first book could survive in the second one.”
As with his first effort, the comedy scribe (son of Mel) keeps the laughs off the page. “This one’s pretty much straight darkness,” says Brooks, who has fielded Hollywood offers to turn THE ZOMBIE SURVIVAL GUIDE into a movie and has already spun off the book into a popular college lecture tour. “WORLD WAR Z’s a serious oral history with an emphasis on authenticity. With the exception of a little creative license, I’ve tried to make everything in the book real. Well, except the zombies.”
For each hour he spent penning the nearly 400 pages of WORLD WAR Z, Brooks says he spent another five hours researching and fact-checking everything (weapons, military protocols, medical terminology, foreign cultures, etc.), an intensive process (learned from Tom Clancy!) that totally caught him off guard. “I knew I’d have to do a lot of homework,” he notes, “but I could have never known how much I didn’t know! Some of the real-world facts I discovered were a hell of a lot scarier than the living dead!”
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The full article can be found HERE
Amazon.com listing HERE
(Apparently, the film version is due out in 2008.)
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Max Brooks' ZOMBIE SURVIVAL GUIDE sequel
Former SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE writer Max Brooks has a follow-up book to his best-selling ZOMBIE SURVIVAL GUIDE due early next fall from Random House. Titled WORLD WAR Z, the tome is another deadpan look at the undead genre. “WORLD WAR Z is an oral history of the future zombie war,” Brooks tells Fango. “The idea is that 10 years after the great global zombie epidemic, I go around the world as a reporter and interview survivors. The book is a serious-intentioned collection of their stories. All the rules of THE ZOMBIE SURVIVAL GUIDE apply here. Basically, anyone who has read the first book could survive in the second one.”
As with his first effort, the comedy scribe (son of Mel) keeps the laughs off the page. “This one’s pretty much straight darkness,” says Brooks, who has fielded Hollywood offers to turn THE ZOMBIE SURVIVAL GUIDE into a movie and has already spun off the book into a popular college lecture tour. “WORLD WAR Z’s a serious oral history with an emphasis on authenticity. With the exception of a little creative license, I’ve tried to make everything in the book real. Well, except the zombies.”
For each hour he spent penning the nearly 400 pages of WORLD WAR Z, Brooks says he spent another five hours researching and fact-checking everything (weapons, military protocols, medical terminology, foreign cultures, etc.), an intensive process (learned from Tom Clancy!) that totally caught him off guard. “I knew I’d have to do a lot of homework,” he notes, “but I could have never known how much I didn’t know! Some of the real-world facts I discovered were a hell of a lot scarier than the living dead!”
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The full article can be found HERE
Amazon.com listing HERE
(Apparently, the film version is due out in 2008.)
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