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Ideas taken from World War Z?

posted 12 years ago by Tish-The-Scorpion
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i can't help but think that some ideas and concepts might have been taken from the book World War Z, or at least a spec script for the film.

[–] movie_nazi 12 years ago

I doubt it. These world epidemic movies are hardly a novel idea. In fact it's practically a genre.

[–] ArthurDental 11 years ago

Seriously. Decades of apocalyptic and epidemics films and you think WWZ was the first?

[–] carlabrams-698-687449 11 years ago

Apparently the OP has never heard of The Andromeda Strain. (The original movie, based upon the Michael Crichton novel, released in 1971. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066769/?ref_=nv_sr_2 I think we can safely agree that this movie EASILY predates WWZ or any of the current zombie crap.)

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[–] daffy72 10 years ago

^ I was going to post the same thing ssllaasskk but you beat me to it >_>

[–] MadamShogun (240) 7 years ago

I was the one who originally posted this. I wasn't referring to the pandemic angle itself. I mean duh there's tons of movies with that concept. I'm specifically referring to the style and framing of the film.