This is why people prefer the walking dead...
Gee!...Who cares? His movie is the Pitts.
So who put up the money ?
Waterworld
Ishtar
The Postman...
I’ve heard from a few in Hollywood that this movie is a bigger turd than Tom Cruise’s latest dog with range attempt at entertaining
It’s the end of Z World!!!
Ping.
>> caused the film’s budget to increase from $170million to a reported $400million
With budget busting experience like that under their belts, they should send their resumes to Treasury if they lose this gig.
There's your problem right there. It wasn't an action/adventure book. It was actually rather introspective in most places, and there wasn't a single outstanding hero or heroine in the thing - its premise was that this was how ordinary people dealt with the situation, how some became heroes and some did not; its structure was that of oral history, and it was necessarily episodic. Turning that into an action shoot-em-up with Bad Brad saving the world would be like turning Studs Terkel's The Good War into an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie. What you get won't be anything like the original, and evidently it wasn't.
I'm not surprised that the ending was a problem. In the book the war wasn't even over yet. Time for a rewrite, a deft rearrangement of scenes, and a large write-off.
When I used to have tv (before 1997) I considered Babylon 5 to be the best tv scince fiction series ever created. It had Larry Niven’s Kilrathi from Ringworld, for crying out loud. ;-)
This is why people prefer the walking dead...
The movie trailers look like they have very little to do with Max Brook’s book. DH is a huge fan of WWZ, but he has no desire to see the movie based on the previews.
Gee, I am always so sad when I hear that some Hollyweirdo lost a boatload of money on a film. Boo-hoo. I hope they all go bankrupt.