For those dedicated fans of Max Brooks' original novel, World War Z, the movie adaptation must have came as something of a shocker. Not because it was particularly bad or anything: it just had absolutely nothing to do with the book. Like, at all. Fact is, World War Z - which has Brad Pitt racing around the globe as a UN representative trying to find a cure for a zombie outbreak - is a different beast entirely, and lamely incorporates approximately 5% of Brooks' source material. This didn't go down well with fans of the book, of course, who saw the adaptation as something of a wasted opportunity: instead of the innovative interview format inherent to the novel, we got a run of the mill zombie thriller (one that was light on blood and gore, too) that skimped on the political and economical discourse that made Brooks' book so great. There was barely even a "war" depicted, either - another aspect that failed to materialise (to the chagrin of World War Z fans).
