Really liked the book too. But this movie is apparently nowhere near the book. In the book, the pandemic gets a slow start and takes over a year to develop. In this movie, it literally seems to happen overnight. Also, the book is told from the perspectives of many different people after the war is effectively over. In the movie, its a “wise” UN bureaucrat who saves the world. Please......
I’ll probably see it anyway. But my expectations are very, very low.
I found the book to be loaded with practical “take-aways” on how to survive a societal collapse. I enjoyed it thoroughly, and many parts of it still come to mind today.
Particularly the story of the family that went north to camp in the woods and ride out the winter. How it was a great little community of people just camping out, but then more and more came and the problems got worse because none were prepared to survive. After, she comments on the sponge-bob sleeping bag frozen under the ice and says something like “What were these parents thinking? What was the cold-rating on this sleeping bag...a heated living room sleepover?”
That’s disappointing.