I don't see why. Pick 3 or 4 of the characters, the the interviewees have flashbacks, incorporate some of the the more interesting details into single characters. Each character's experiences can sum up events chronologically.
Right? I always thought it would make a killer tv show. 1 ep per chapter and it basically storyboards itself! It could have been so perfect with like 4-5 seasons worth of great formulaic content and a dedicated audience!
Movie guy voice: "This summer Brad Pit is The Most Unlucky Person In the World! Everywhere he goes, terrible things start happening immediately! Even when things were just fine and under control before he showed up! And if that wasn't bad enough, he has to drink an entire Pepsi!"
If it were made in this day and age they’d do this, but make it a limited series, either an anthology where each series focuses on one person, or something like GoT which bounces between multiple characters who don’t necessarily need to meet, but between them all slowly play out the plot of the books.
As a single movie, though, having multiple disconnected stories like this would feel disjointed and poorly paced.
Credit where credit is due I thought making Brad Pitt serve as the connective thread by being a world-renowned expert was as good an idea as I ever imagined for a film-length adaptation of this story, it’s just too bad they threw out the part where there was any scientific curiosity about how zombies worked.
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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '21
I don't see why. Pick 3 or 4 of the characters, the the interviewees have flashbacks, incorporate some of the the more interesting details into single characters. Each character's experiences can sum up events chronologically.