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Ain’t It Cool’s Moriarty got his hands on the script for the upcoming adaptation of Max Brook’s highly acclaimed zombie book World War Z. And by the sounds of it this film may very well be groundbreaking, like Oscar award wining groundbreaking.

Moriarty says that:

“This isn’t just a good adaptation of a difficult book… it’s a genre-defining piece of work that could well see us all arguing about whether or not a zombie movie qualifies as “Best Picture” material.”

Best Picture material? A zombie film? Really? Please don’t be teasing us dude. ‘Cause us zombie fans won’t take that too lightly. We are after all a fragile sort really.

He says about the script:

“The book is an oral history of the great zombie wars, compiled by a nameless editor as part of a government report. The book is all of his unfiltered data, since much of it was censored from the official report. That’s all the narrative that the book offered, but it was enough for JMS to use, and the result is much sadder than I would have expected. In the first five pages, we see GERRY LANE collecting stories, and the first two interviews are with a flight attendant and a border guard. Both manage to play as horror shock beats, but the way they’re told also sets the tone right away… JMS is after the human truth underneath the horror, and in a way, that makes it much, much harder to take.”

He then goes on to say:

“The world of the film reminds me of CHILDREN OF MEN on the page. Realistic but set in the near-future, in the aftermath of the zombie wars. We see a flashback to Gerry being given his assignment to write a report about “where the system worked, where it didn’t, how and in what ways the various organizational infrastructures failed.” It’s a politically shitty job because no one wants to know that they were responsible for anything that went wrong. Gerry’s hesitant because it’s going to take at least six months away from his family, just as the world is starting to right itself. He takes the job, and as he travels to his first interview, we see how hard travel has become.”

Sounds pretty swank really. Though I won’t be holding my breath for the Academy to all of the sudden take a shining to an actual horror film, let alone a zombie one. I think I would have a better chance of seeing pigs fly of their own accord before that happens.

I’ll just be in the ZMP Genetic Labs working on the development of asto-swines in the meantime.