{"id":1505,"date":"2008-11-14T15:19:43","date_gmt":"2008-11-14T19:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=1505"},"modified":"2018-12-09T01:06:27","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T06:06:27","slug":"forster-to-document-world-war-z","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/14\/forster-to-document-world-war-z\/","title":{"rendered":"Forster To Document WORLD WAR Z"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/wwz.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1814\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/wwz-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/wwz-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/wwz-550x846.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/wwz.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/a>Marc Forster, whose Bond installment <strong>Quantum Of Solace<\/strong> opens in theaters today, has been hired by Brad Pitt\u2019s production company Plan B to direct their adaptation of the Max Brooks zombie apocalypse novel <em>World War Z<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Brooks\u2019 book is a faux collection of government reports and eyewitness accounts from survivors of a world wide zombie plague. The adaptation was written by <strong>Changeling<\/strong>-screenwriter J. Michael Straczynski, which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2008\/06\/01\/max-brooks-talks-world-war-z-flick\/\" target=\"_blank\">Brooks found<\/a> \u201creally cool\u201d as he is a fan of Straczynski\u2019s classic science-fiction television series <em>Babylon 5<\/em>. To join the various narratives in the film together, Straczynski\u2019s script utilizes a government official character who is slowly compiling the documents and stories featured in the book.<\/p>\n<p>No cast is currently attached to the project.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120308223214\/http:\/\/www.variety.com\/article\/VR1117995840?refCatId=13\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Variety<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Marc Forster, whose Bond installment Quantum Of Solace opens in theaters today, has been hired by Brad Pitt\u2019s production company Plan B to direct their adaptation of the Max Brooks zombie apocalypse novel World War <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/14\/forster-to-document-world-war-z\/\" title=\"Forster To Document WORLD WAR Z\">[click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[60,57,56,22,644,1017,1016,94],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1505","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-book-to-film","9":"tag-directors","10":"tag-horror","11":"tag-in-development","12":"tag-j-michael-straczynski","13":"tag-max-brooks","14":"tag-world-war-z","15":"tag-writers"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1505"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}