However as someone mentioned earlier, to do justice to the material you really need to do at least two movies to cover the world wide scope of the story. I just have a bad feeling that any attempt to squeeze the book into a two hour movie will fail.

I think a four or five part miniseries would better cover the material.

was to use the media to convince the mass public one thing, so that the zombies would follow them and wipe them out. During that the govt and a select group would go somewhere strategic to stave off all of the Zs, regroup and then go about cleaning up. This would kill off almost a third to a half of your entire population, which some might consider a little callous. Millions die now, so thousands can live later. It only makes sense, but still people kill each other over dumb shit, how would they feel about knowing their govt set them and their family up to be bait?

I thought the book was good at coming up with a real life look at how the world would handle zombies. I enjoyed reading how the infection spreads so quickly and how easy it would be to avoid them, except common sense is thrown out the windor during a crisis. It could be a good movie if done right, but something tells me it might fall short.

If only the governments of the world had listened to Israel they might not have found themselves forced to follow Redeker's plan. But that is one of the things I liked about the book, there are no heroes in the story, just average people doing heroic things to survive and fight back.

Brians Life - I never really even thought about the ocean dwellers! That is some scary shit.

If the latter, try this one on for size as well: http://tinyurl.com/2kh4lv

They're not scary. Not remotely. Not anymore. So many films have been made about zombies that they've become laugh-track charicatures of themselves. Seriously, zombies suck. As do vampires, werewolves, ghosts, and other non-existant "horrors" that seem to entertain humans so easily. I'm tired of the old tropes.

Remember when writers came up with their own nutty lifeforms to write about? "Alien," anyone?" Head busting "Scanners?" How about the creepy crawly "Thing" (both versions) or any of the hundreds of well-developed, truly scary horrors from short stories and novels that filmmakers are too chickenshit to take a shot at?

I like JMS, and I'll likely see "Changeling" this winter, but another freakin' zombie movie? Even if it's big-budget, with a great director like Cuaron, it's still zombies. Everyone knows what they are, what they do, the threat they present, and their history. Sorry if I'm being a party pooper here, but unless the zombies in Max Brooks's story are of alien or bioengineered origin, thus not typical Romero-esque zombies, I'm not interested.

Because unlike zombies, aliens might actually exist.

You know that would own your ass!

"You think after being trained to aim for the center mass your whole military career, you can suddenly make an expert head shot every time? You think in that straitjacket and suffocation hood it's easy to recharge a clip or clear a weapon jam? You think after watching all the wonders of modern warfare fall flat on their hi-tech hyper ass, and after already living through three months of the Great Panic and watching everything you knew as reality being eaten alive by an enemy that wasn't even supposed to exist, that you can keep a cool fucking head and a steady fucking trigger finger?

Well, we did. We still managed to do our job and make Zack pay for every fucking inch."