Friday
14Nov2008
'Quantum of Solace' Director Going After Zombies in 'World War Z'
Friday, November 14, 2008 at 11:46AM
Marc Foster may have officially adopted the
mantra, "Less talk, more rock."
The man who made his fame with human dramas like Monster's Ball and Finding Neverland, and went from that to the sorely underappreciated Stranger Than Fiction, debuts his new film in America today. It's a little something called Quantum of Solace. And suddenly, it seems, Forster is a changed man. I dunno; maybe he's using Axe body spray or something.
Let's just hope there are some zombie attacks. You can't have this movie without them, right?
J. Michael Straczynski will write the script, and he's the guy who wrote Changeling and who will also pen the Forbidden Planet remake. Brad Pitt's Plan B picked up the rights a couple of years ago.
Said Forster of wanting to direct the adaptation, "The genre always fascinated me, and when they pitched it to me, it reminded me of the paranoid conspiracy films of the '70s like All the President's Men."
Colin Boyd | Permalink | in 007, Adaptations, Marc Forster, World War Z, Zombies | Print Article | Email Article | 3 Comments | Share Article
Reader Comments (3)
J. Michael (Of the "Straczynski" variety rather than the "Vincent" variety) was also the man responsible for Babylon 5 and the awesome re-boot of Thor Marvel produced last year. He is a bit of a sci-fi god in the same vein that Rod Serling, Joss Whedon, and Gene Roddenbury are, but I suspect he's been doing screenplays of the Changeling variety to keep the lights on.
Oh, and I was going to put Jeph Loeb in this group too, until NBC fired his ass last week...
On second thought, maybe I will put Mr. Loeb in...seems like all these guys get fired sooner or later!
Yes, I forgot to mention his other bona fides, but I think I did reference them when we talked about Forbidden Planet.
this is evidently a big fan of chase scenes