World War Z Resources
Websites
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Max Brooks has a website, an official website, an official website about all things Max Brooks.
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Even Brook's zombies have a site, and it comes with a mobile phone app that zombifies your friends and neighbors. Not that Facebook doesn't already do that for you, Ba-zing!
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An original short story by Max Brooks involving zombies and vampires. (Werewolves and Black Lagoon mermen are coming soon.)
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The book that started it all. Not zombies, mind you, but Brooks's particular take on zombies. Anyway, The Zombie Survival Guide is here for all your zombie survival guiding needs.
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Studs Terkel's The Good War: An Oral History of World War II provided the inspiration for Max Brook's zombie novel, not to mention the title.
Movie or TV Productions
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Because you know you wanted more zombies on top of all the movies, TV series, novels, comic books, video games, puppet theater plays….
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This 2013 film with Mr. Brad Pitt takes some liberties with the story—but it's still epic.
Articles and Interviews
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Sorry to get your hopes up. It's actually a review of World War Z on a science fiction website. Still a good review though.
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That doesn't really work, does it? Anyway, this is review on World War Z, and it's here.
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The A.V. Club gives World War Z an A-, keeping Max Brooks's authorial GPA in the 3.2 range.
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Entertainment Weekly—or EW as it's called by those in the know—interviews one Max Brooks after he goes and sells a million copies.
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The World Socialist Web Site—no seriously—has an article comparing World War Z to natural disasters and society's ability to deal with each.
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NPR discusses with Brooks why his novel should show up on college freshman reading lists, and we feel any reason is a good enough reason.
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Max Brooks discusses zombies, vampires, and the deadliest warriors at the most theme appropriate of websites—Fear.net.
Video
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There are a lot of movies in the background here. And in the foreground, we have Max Brooks being interviewed.
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Max Brooks. Comic Con. Answering questions with fans. Four parts. 'Nuff said. Here's the first one!
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A trailer for George A. Romero's The Night of the Living Dead, the movie that started it all.
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Sure, it doesn't technically have anything to do with World War Z, but it has amazing zombie make-up running amok in New York City. Good stuff.
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Here's the first trailer for the 2013 blockbuster smash hit.
Audio
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The World War Z audiobook does things right. It's presented like an old-timey radio drama with actors such as Mark Hamill, John Turturro, Alan Alda, and more.
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Want a sampling of the World War Z audiobook? You need look no further.
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We might not know the answer to that, but they did sing a song called "Zombie." So, there's that.
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Here are some of the interviews that led Studs Terkel to write The Good War: An Oral History of World War II.
Images
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Max Brooks knows his own book so well he can read it upside down.
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Max Brooks rocks an author pose if we ever saw one.
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This cover covers the words that are World War Z.
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Artist John Petersen gives us the Battle of Yonkers from a zombie's point of view.
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Io9 called his bit of concept art "a veritable Where's Waldo of splattered zombie carnage." Need you know more?
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No, it isn't a deadly rabbit. These people are on the set of World War Z.
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Brad Pitt stands on the set of World War Z, looking pretty calm for someone about to enter a zombie apocalypse.