The storyline in the book that always gets me is the one about the translators on the ship, whose job it was to coordinate distress signals and push out information useful to survivors across the world. The revelation that the guy being interviewed was the last one alive, as all his buddies had self-deleted due to spending years forced to listen to other people's last terrifying moments day in and day out.......oof.
There are so many great story lines in the book, it's a fabulous read. The astronauts stuck up on the space station, the SIR (standard infantry rifle), the Battle of Yonkers, all of it; chef's kiss.
I am so desperate for these guys to do a Grunt Book Club where they read WWZ and talk about how they'd survive. It would be so popular, our fandom is so starved for good content, and these guys clearly love the source material.
6:23 The Standard Infantry Rifle is implied to basically be a souped-up Mini-14, since it takes 5.56 with wood furniture. The round it shoots is called the Pyrotechnically Ignited Explosive, I think-meant to burn out the brain and avoid wasteful burn pits after the fight.
@@PhoenixT70 I would think a highly accurized version of a Mini-14 that takes AR-15/M-16 magazines. Mini-14’s are reliable, but they are notorious for “beer can accuracy.” For the kind of work they were doing in the book, they would need a gun capable of 1 inch to 2 inch groups at 100 yards minimum.😎✌️
Alright here i go again: 6:31, It was Iron Maiden's The Trooper that they were blasting, the rifles they used where more on line of a mix of M14 and M1A1 carbines with interchangeable scopes,barrels and stocks, and finally, It was not the dude behind you takes over your rifle, its the guy behind you switches positions in the firing line,while you go take a leak, Gets some MRE, go talk to the on site shrink, refill ammo or whatever,then you return over to formation to continue on task... God i Swear sometimes go full tism when It comes to WWZ book.
@trenchmouse2438 I just checked the passage that mentions that in the book, Nope It says that UK just used bagpipes, surely that was the Scottish doing.
@@jackhammertwo1 You’re right. There’s a footnote in Todd Wainio’s second to last ineterview (pg.389 on my copy) that mentions the song as part of a soundtrack in a BBC film. I misremembered how the song was used.
Imo the perfect WWZ movie or tv show is having it in a documentary style since all the chapters are interviews with different people who experienced the Zombie War in different ways. Put in that way and you’ve done the book justice.
I always thought it would have been great as a mini series, staying true to the book, but combined with your documentary style, that would be something really worth watching.
@ I’m 100% okay with that, like every episode could focus on a chapter, or an individual interview since they are long, show some mock up footage or documents to sell it like an actual event similar to the index points in the book and you really have the book on screen. Cause the best thing about the book is how real it felt while reading it, like you actually felt like you’re reading a UN report not just some fictional zombie story.
@@seniorordenanza2387 truth be told I hate the genre, but I’ve read the book twice, and yeah the way you described it would be perfect. I would definitely watch. Now just gotta pitch it to Brad Pitt!😎✌️
@ lol he could be the interviewer, since I’m pretty sure that’s what they were going for in the movie, taking it from the interviewers pov even though they changed like ALOT compared to the book
If you hunt online you can find the World War Z script that J Michael Straczynski (creator of Babylon 5) wrote which was sh*t canned when Brad Pitt joined the project. It's pretty good and about the best adaption you could probably get for a movie and not a miniseries
World War Z is the highest grossing film in Brad Pitts carrer and as the lead investor he made more money on Wrld War Z than any other movie he ever did. I hate the fact.
I watched World War Z again a couple nights ago. It is a FANTASTIC zombie movie if you don't associate it with the novel. When compared to the novel there is 20% that is the same. The idea of "camouflage", using a curable disease to keep the zombies from harming you, was 100% from the movie writers. And it's a good, new strategy that I hadn't seen in any other zombie movies or shows that I've watched. Ignore the name and watch a good zombie movie, but I'm with Donut in saying they should still make a WWZ series following the books. It would be fantastic!
What I'm ultimately waiting is for Task & Purpose's video on the break down of Con Plan 8888. I'm sure Chris can tell us all about what the Military and Government should be doing. We won't be doing much because the zombies have to be formerly someone..... But it'd be interesting to learn from an average spare parts infantry as to what the military is going to do about it.
This document should be the first thing anyone reads when creating a new zombie movie. They pretty much aggregated all the lore from every popular movie, TV show, and video game I can think of, plus a couple I had no idea about.
I know that somewhere Paramount pictures has the original version of world war z that had Brad Pitt's character going into Russia and fighting off zombies hand to hand. Releasing that on Blu-Ray now or putting it on Paramount plus would be a license to print money
Yes I say the same thing. WWZ isn’t bad in a vacuum but if you look at the book or what they originally wanted to do in the movie it’s a little disappointing.
Thank you. I was disappointed they didn't bother with more parkour in the film. Same with I, Robot. Decent enough on its own, not really an adaption of Asimov.
You are wrong about the zombie CONPLAN. It was a training exercise during officer training. It was an UNCLASSIFIED course so they had to pick something challenging for the officers to work through the planning process that didn't involve real events, so they chose zombies. It is not a real CONPLAN on the books.
WWZ is a great book it shows the horrors of a extermination war either humanity wins or gets brutaly wipe out by the zombies showing the best and worst of humanity with great heroism and tragedy the fall of Buenos Aires was quite tragic as the last transmition from the city was a lullaby as the rest of the country remain on a bloody and bitter battle for survival or the battle for Mexico the population entrech themselves in the pyramids and resisted ther, the tiger of bengal making a last stand and the russians battle against the zombies entering siberia or even the horros of the children that went feral after losing their parents in Canada
I feel like I’m the only one who really enjoys the film. I absolutely adore the book, it’s my favorite hands down and the movie is nothing like it. That’s my main complaint. Outside that I think the movie is a pretty good zombie flick with pretty minor issues in my opinion. And if you know anything about the production of the movie you’ll know it’s a miracle that it’s even serviceable
It’s been a minute since I’ve read the book, but I think the chaplain story mentioned at the end was of a Russian soldier. In the world of WWZ, the Russians end up adopting a theocratic form of government. I remember as he was being interviewed he’s interrupted by a child and excuses himself, before retrieving a bible and WW2 era pistol of some kind. My memory might be totally wrong, though.
World War Z deserves a faithful film or miniseries adaptation. The Brad Pitt movie was dog 💩. An HBO Game of Thrones production quality miniseries that adapts the storyline of the book would be awesome.
“Put Kevin Hart in it and make it fucking lame!” ~ future ATF director
The storyline in the book that always gets me is the one about the translators on the ship, whose job it was to coordinate distress signals and push out information useful to survivors across the world. The revelation that the guy being interviewed was the last one alive, as all his buddies had self-deleted due to spending years forced to listen to other people's last terrifying moments day in and day out.......oof.
There are so many great story lines in the book, it's a fabulous read. The astronauts stuck up on the space station, the SIR (standard infantry rifle), the Battle of Yonkers, all of it; chef's kiss.
@@panachevitz "Not bad for the son of an Andamooka opal miner."
Same reaction here, deepened by the fact that I was a government translator for a couple of years and I can totally see it working like that.
I love when Cody's tism gets tingled and he gets to talk about his passions.
Kinda gay but ok
@@MiKEY_TARANTiNO i don't think that word means what you think it means...
I am so desperate for these guys to do a Grunt Book Club where they read WWZ and talk about how they'd survive. It would be so popular, our fandom is so starved for good content, and these guys clearly love the source material.
The audio book for wwz was phenomenal
Cody tism activated
6:23 The Standard Infantry Rifle is implied to basically be a souped-up Mini-14, since it takes 5.56 with wood furniture. The round it shoots is called the Pyrotechnically Ignited Explosive, I think-meant to burn out the brain and avoid wasteful burn pits after the fight.
Incendiary 5.56
@@PhoenixT70 I would think a highly accurized version of a Mini-14 that takes AR-15/M-16 magazines. Mini-14’s are reliable, but they are notorious for “beer can accuracy.” For the kind of work they were doing in the book, they would need a gun capable of 1 inch to 2 inch groups at 100 yards minimum.😎✌️
Alright here i go again: 6:31, It was Iron Maiden's The Trooper that they were blasting, the rifles they used where more on line of a mix of M14 and M1A1 carbines with interchangeable scopes,barrels and stocks, and finally, It was not the dude behind you takes over your rifle, its the guy behind you switches positions in the firing line,while you go take a leak, Gets some MRE, go talk to the on site shrink, refill ammo or whatever,then you return over to formation to continue on task... God i Swear sometimes go full tism when It comes to WWZ book.
IIRC, the brits were using The Smiths’ ‘How Soon is Now’ in the UK cleansing.
Fun details like that make the book stand out
@trenchmouse2438 I just checked the passage that mentions that in the book, Nope It says that UK just used bagpipes, surely that was the Scottish doing.
@@jackhammertwo1 You’re right. There’s a footnote in Todd Wainio’s second to last ineterview (pg.389 on my copy) that mentions the song as part of a soundtrack in a BBC film.
I misremembered how the song was used.
Mel Brooks also wrote a book about a Sasquatch destroying a hippie commune in Oregon :) "Devolution"
Now there's a movie I'd watch. Maybe even play the game.
Imo the perfect WWZ movie or tv show is having it in a documentary style since all the chapters are interviews with different people who experienced the Zombie War in different ways. Put in that way and you’ve done the book justice.
I always thought it would have been great as a mini series, staying true to the book, but combined with your documentary style, that would be something really worth watching.
@ I’m 100% okay with that, like every episode could focus on a chapter, or an individual interview since they are long, show some mock up footage or documents to sell it like an actual event similar to the index points in the book and you really have the book on screen. Cause the best thing about the book is how real it felt while reading it, like you actually felt like you’re reading a UN report not just some fictional zombie story.
@@seniorordenanza2387 truth be told I hate the genre, but I’ve read the book twice, and yeah the way you described it would be perfect. I would definitely watch. Now just gotta pitch it to Brad Pitt!😎✌️
@ lol he could be the interviewer, since I’m pretty sure that’s what they were going for in the movie, taking it from the interviewers pov even though they changed like ALOT compared to the book
If you hunt online you can find the World War Z script that J Michael Straczynski (creator of Babylon 5) wrote which was sh*t canned when Brad Pitt joined the project. It's pretty good and about the best adaption you could probably get for a movie and not a miniseries
World War Z is the highest grossing film in Brad Pitts carrer and as the lead investor he made more money on Wrld War Z than any other movie he ever did. I hate the fact.
never knew max brooks wrote World War Z, i knew his name from reading the Zombie Survival Guide in highschool
i like the k9 story in the book
Personely my favorite is the second chapter in the holey russian army
It was Chris Cappy, you’re average infantryman, that won WWZ!
That movie would have been awesome as a TV show
the only flaw with WWZ was Max Brooks failed understanding of the modern AR15/M4/M16 platform.
This collab is f awesome !!!
Dont bother reading the book listen to the audiobook. It is fully voiceacted and the closest thing to a miniseries that we will get.
I watched World War Z again a couple nights ago. It is a FANTASTIC zombie movie if you don't associate it with the novel. When compared to the novel there is 20% that is the same. The idea of "camouflage", using a curable disease to keep the zombies from harming you, was 100% from the movie writers. And it's a good, new strategy that I hadn't seen in any other zombie movies or shows that I've watched. Ignore the name and watch a good zombie movie, but I'm with Donut in saying they should still make a WWZ series following the books. It would be fantastic!
What I'm ultimately waiting is for Task & Purpose's video on the break down of Con Plan 8888. I'm sure Chris can tell us all about what the Military and Government should be doing. We won't be doing much because the zombies have to be formerly someone..... But it'd be interesting to learn from an average spare parts infantry as to what the military is going to do about it.
I started listening to the audiobook for it and I understand Cody's tism for it
This document should be the first thing anyone reads when creating a new zombie movie. They pretty much aggregated all the lore from every popular movie, TV show, and video game I can think of, plus a couple I had no idea about.
Brooks+ Beans+ Camp fire Nuff said.
1:17 Cody spittin facts
He knew the movie was going to be crap so he spent every contact his family made to make the audiobook perfect.
I know that somewhere Paramount pictures has the original version of world war z that had Brad Pitt's character going into Russia and fighting off zombies hand to hand. Releasing that on Blu-Ray now or putting it on Paramount plus would be a license to print money
I make the same claim about the Prince of Persia movie -- it was a perfectly enjoyable fantasy adventure, just not a good Prince of Persia adaptation
Yes I say the same thing. WWZ isn’t bad in a vacuum but if you look at the book or what they originally wanted to do in the movie it’s a little disappointing.
Thank you. I was disappointed they didn't bother with more parkour in the film.
Same with I, Robot. Decent enough on its own, not really an adaption of Asimov.
Please listen to it on audible full cast production worth every penny
Tremendous
Fun fact Max Brooks is a DOD consultant.
You are wrong about the zombie CONPLAN. It was a training exercise during officer training. It was an UNCLASSIFIED course so they had to pick something challenging for the officers to work through the planning process that didn't involve real events, so they chose zombies. It is not a real CONPLAN on the books.
WWZ is a great book it shows the horrors of a extermination war either humanity wins or gets brutaly wipe out by the zombies showing the best and worst of humanity with great heroism and tragedy the fall of Buenos Aires was quite tragic as the last transmition from the city was a lullaby as the rest of the country remain on a bloody and bitter battle for survival or the battle for Mexico the population entrech themselves in the pyramids and resisted ther, the tiger of bengal making a last stand and the russians battle against the zombies entering siberia or even the horros of the children that went feral after losing their parents in Canada
Damn I gotta read World War Z again
in the book they used the trooper by megadeath to draw them in
Iron Maiden*,megadeth's is a cover.
IraqVeteran8888 had to explain his username in a video because so many people asked him why that was his username meant😂
I feel like I’m the only one who really enjoys the film. I absolutely adore the book, it’s my favorite hands down and the movie is nothing like it. That’s my main complaint. Outside that I think the movie is a pretty good zombie flick with pretty minor issues in my opinion. And if you know anything about the production of the movie you’ll know it’s a miracle that it’s even serviceable
Read the books Blue Plague very good zombie books
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Great book, books within books. Movie just didn’t even come close to the original.
It’s been a minute since I’ve read the book, but I think the chaplain story mentioned at the end was of a Russian soldier. In the world of WWZ, the Russians end up adopting a theocratic form of government.
I remember as he was being interviewed he’s interrupted by a child and excuses himself, before retrieving a bible and WW2 era pistol of some kind. My memory might be totally wrong, though.
Less than a soldiers and more like a commisar, his job was putting down infected Russian soldiers
Black Summer (at least season 1) on Netflix was a better World War Z representation then that damn movie
I can't help but wonder what ut would be like if these passed the peace pipe around.
World War Z deserves a faithful film or miniseries adaptation. The Brad Pitt movie was dog 💩. An HBO Game of Thrones production quality miniseries that adapts the storyline of the book would be awesome.
I like John Ringo's version better
Tell me more pls
Falling sky's started it
Per the Chaplin commentary... mercy is mercy, it falls to the clergy to give final absolution... it's dark and F'd but.....
Which is it battle la or battle for la
I'm cool with 38 million going to a zombie plan. There's significantly more wasteful spending everywhere else.
Love that book. The movie was bullshit 😒
World War Z wasn't a good book. You don't have to nickname everything.
@@austinhuber3131 Nah its a Matter of perspective, i have read waaaaaaaay worse Zombie apocalypse books than WWZ.
Wow a wrong opinion
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