World War Z Trailer: 10 Reasons It Will Probably Suck and 1 Reason It Might Not
7. Haven't We Essentially Seen All This Before?
The great thing about the World War Z novel is that it takes this concept that weve seen play out time and time again in horror, the Zombie Holocaust, but examines it from a completely new perspective years after it actually occurs. As a result, the vast range of unique and compelling characters have had time to think, analyse what went wrong around them, where they succeeded, where they failed and how they ultimately adapted to survive the new threat. The familiar story elements are there, delivered in flashback, but from this new perspective they feel almost entirely fresh. When I watch World War Z's trailer, I'm struck by how painfully similar it all seems to so many other movies of its ilk; how it seems to have dispensed with almost everything that made the book itself so revolutionary in favour of a story that is in itself much easier to tell (and of course to sell). In the end you have to ask yourself: is it a story we really need to hear again?