For me, I’d love to see this as an anthology of short stories by authors from a range of cultures, each story being set in a different country (or a different part of the country if it’s large enough) focused on the rebuild attempts. You could style them as interviews being conducted by one interviewer to draw them all together
Tbh, I just want to see people from different cultures write what they think would happen in their country during WWZ. Ofc, after the weird zombie physics gets fixed. No more pressure-resistant zombies!
I'd love the "zombie-proof suburbs" as an entire book, cozy fantasy style. Focused on the problem solving and crafting rather than the actual zombie horror.
The zombie gentrification lady could even stalk thhe interviewer at points for his attention trying to do pr for her project, and she could be a very driven saleslady mixed with wanting meaning and help in a flawed way. And a funny comic relief even with how driven she is to try to sell it to help. She could be really funny side character too in a zombie apocalypse. She joins because she wants to have protection driven finding someone helping her build more houses? God how isnt that character in zombie media that can be fun and tragic. Oh and she grieves and falls in love with a disgruntled bodyguard that likes her drive? Wait that could be a fun romcom in a zombie apocalypse if he has more interesting of a background too. And she could give it for free and is at first more business minded?! I mean a road trip in a zombie crisis where she was a housewife and does the archetecture zombie houses and she hires a person as bodyguard and they do a road trip to find sponsors?! It could or could not be a romance and the first cozy building part? And it could end on a cozy building part, and first she wants sucess and fame but changes her motive on the trip
If it's the more narrative focused one then having them traveling to the world's last film festival and their creating their entry as their traveling. It's almost a found footage documentary of people's lives during the apocalypse. And they could even interview people they travel alongside for short times during the journey.
idea for a zombie mechanic that could be more plausible - a virus that has a very long incubation time when you infectious but asymptomatic. The virus only attaches to spinal cords/brains so it is very difficult to test for. Then there is some kind of catalyst that causes the incubation period to end (maybe when one incubation ends, it starts pumping out hormones to trigger the end in nearby infected, causing a chain reaction) that way you can go overnight from healthy city to having half of them turned zombie in one night.
Personally I love WWZ as a sprawling mockumentary of an apocalypse that never happened, so I would opt to merely edit the original. That said, I think this rewrite could be a cool book on its own. What makes WWZ different from all the other zombie fiction I've read is that it tales place after the fact and tries to look at the event on a big-picture level by using individual stories to build it.
Wasnt the kudzu not as scary but for a time just irreesponsible and careless shortsighted hyped up so much and then ledt alone , and more a sign of neglect. Which would be an interestin zombie background too, also goats.
The idea of limiting the scope of the story to just the American point of view is...kinda boring, honestly. It works because it's the biggest perspective the author has, but at the same time it's more of the same zombie media you always have. Here is a zombie apocalypse...in the US...again. No, fuck that, give me Train to Busan, 28 Days Later, let's explore how different societies handle a zombie apocalypse. I have yet to see a Latin American zombie movie, there is a Brazilian series but it's not good at all. I suppose the idea of making this a series is fine. It doesn't make sense to call the book "World War Z" if the only perspective we'll get is the US perspective. There is a whole chapter in the book that is about the US exclusively, and I think that if you go with the concept of a single region's perspective per book in the series, then the title of that chapter works well. It's the World War Z series, the first book is title "World War Z: Homefront USA". Then you go to World War Z: Europe. World War Z: Asia. World War Z: Latin America. And so on, and so on. To me, the most fun part of World War Z is the globe-trotting. It's all these stories about how different nations evolved, what happened in this nation, how the zombies affected their international relations, and how societal issues from these countries like organ trafficking affected the outbreak. Yeah, the book could have explored it so much better, but taking it away entirely and just doing the US is kinda lame. Again, if the idea is to make it a series, fine, although I would argue that if you are splitting the story by region and the first book involves the US, then don't discriminate and make it about North America as a whole. Have the first book talk about Canada, Mexico, and Greenland. The Mexico and Greenland chapters can be used as set-ups for the Latin American and European books, while Hawaii in the US chapters can be used as set-up for the Asian book and the state of the Pacific countries.
For me, I’d love to see this as an anthology of short stories by authors from a range of cultures, each story being set in a different country (or a different part of the country if it’s large enough) focused on the rebuild attempts. You could style them as interviews being conducted by one interviewer to draw them all together
Tbh, I just want to see people from different cultures write what they think would happen in their country during WWZ. Ofc, after the weird zombie physics gets fixed. No more pressure-resistant zombies!
Hmm... that is a really good idea. I don't have many short story ideas (not good with the form) but I would love to explore this idea.
I'd love the "zombie-proof suburbs" as an entire book, cozy fantasy style. Focused on the problem solving and crafting rather than the actual zombie horror.
The zombie gentrification lady could even stalk thhe interviewer at points for his attention trying to do pr for her project, and she could be a very driven saleslady mixed with wanting meaning and help in a flawed way.
And a funny comic relief even with how driven she is to try to sell it to help.
She could be really funny side character too in a zombie apocalypse. She joins because she wants to have protection driven finding someone helping her build more houses?
God how isnt that character in zombie media that can be fun and tragic.
Oh and she grieves and falls in love with a disgruntled bodyguard that likes her drive? Wait that could be a fun romcom in a zombie apocalypse if he has more interesting of a background too.
And she could give it for free and is at first more business minded?!
I mean a road trip in a zombie crisis where she was a housewife and does the archetecture zombie houses and she hires a person as bodyguard and they do a road trip to find sponsors?! It could or could not be a romance and the first cozy building part? And it could end on a cozy building part, and first she wants sucess and fame but changes her motive on the trip
If it's the more narrative focused one then having them traveling to the world's last film festival and their creating their entry as their traveling. It's almost a found footage documentary of people's lives during the apocalypse. And they could even interview people they travel alongside for short times during the journey.
Love these rewrite videos even if they don't have many views. You guys rock!
idea for a zombie mechanic that could be more plausible - a virus that has a very long incubation time when you infectious but asymptomatic. The virus only attaches to spinal cords/brains so it is very difficult to test for. Then there is some kind of catalyst that causes the incubation period to end (maybe when one incubation ends, it starts pumping out hormones to trigger the end in nearby infected, causing a chain reaction) that way you can go overnight from healthy city to having half of them turned zombie in one night.
That's a very good idea.
For the algo gods!
Personally I love WWZ as a sprawling mockumentary of an apocalypse that never happened, so I would opt to merely edit the original. That said, I think this rewrite could be a cool book on its own. What makes WWZ different from all the other zombie fiction I've read is that it tales place after the fact and tries to look at the event on a big-picture level by using individual stories to build it.
Will you guys be going over Fall of Hyperion? Would LOVE to see it
Ahh another rewrite! I'm always so excited for these. ^_^
As an invasion ecologist I loved the invasive species tangent
woohooo a rewrite!!!!
1:09:40 Vita Carnis?
That's the one.
--Will
I feel like the film should have taken more cues from District 9. But then that might have just invited comparisons to a much better film.
MOAR ZOMBIES AND CANNIBALS.
Wasnt the kudzu not as scary but for a time just irreesponsible and careless shortsighted hyped up so much and then ledt alone , and more a sign of neglect.
Which would be an interestin zombie background too, also goats.
Seriously? I expected more cannibalism
An austronaut, an austrian astronaut?
If it was a comedy they wouldn't be burning down forests to dispose of bodies they would just dump them all in a California wildfire 😂
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The idea of limiting the scope of the story to just the American point of view is...kinda boring, honestly. It works because it's the biggest perspective the author has, but at the same time it's more of the same zombie media you always have. Here is a zombie apocalypse...in the US...again. No, fuck that, give me Train to Busan, 28 Days Later, let's explore how different societies handle a zombie apocalypse. I have yet to see a Latin American zombie movie, there is a Brazilian series but it's not good at all.
I suppose the idea of making this a series is fine. It doesn't make sense to call the book "World War Z" if the only perspective we'll get is the US perspective. There is a whole chapter in the book that is about the US exclusively, and I think that if you go with the concept of a single region's perspective per book in the series, then the title of that chapter works well. It's the World War Z series, the first book is title "World War Z: Homefront USA". Then you go to World War Z: Europe. World War Z: Asia. World War Z: Latin America. And so on, and so on.
To me, the most fun part of World War Z is the globe-trotting. It's all these stories about how different nations evolved, what happened in this nation, how the zombies affected their international relations, and how societal issues from these countries like organ trafficking affected the outbreak. Yeah, the book could have explored it so much better, but taking it away entirely and just doing the US is kinda lame. Again, if the idea is to make it a series, fine, although I would argue that if you are splitting the story by region and the first book involves the US, then don't discriminate and make it about North America as a whole. Have the first book talk about Canada, Mexico, and Greenland. The Mexico and Greenland chapters can be used as set-ups for the Latin American and European books, while Hawaii in the US chapters can be used as set-up for the Asian book and the state of the Pacific countries.