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Does WORLD WAR Z Have Its DP?
Nordling here.
Bleeding Cool has a scoop about WORLD WAR Z that, if accurate, should get rid of some of the naysayers who complained, and rightfully so, that Marc Forster's QUANTUM OF SOLACE was too much shaky cam and not enough substance for its action scenes.
According to BC and his agency's resume, Oscar winner Robert Richardson will be shooting WORLD WAR Z. Richardson is one of our best cameramen, having shot films for Martin Scorsese (he just wrapped HUGO CABRET), Quentin Tarantino (KILL BILL, INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS), and Oliver Stone (JFK, NATURAL BORN KILLERS), among others. No one could complain about his skills as a cinematographer - he shoots coherent action scenes, and has a real eye for color and lighting. His roster includes some of the best shot films of this and last century. If nothing else, an epic zombie film shot through Richardson's lenses should look amazing. So that's one concern down, I think.
So it looks like WORLD WAR Z is really going to happen, and with a cinematographer of Richardson's caliber shooting it, it doesn't seem like we're going to get talking heads telling their personal stories in this one - at least, that won't be all we'll get, anyway.
Nordling, out.
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The whole idea of a movie about zombie DP sounds perverted. I'm just sayin'.
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April 12, 2011, 12:30 p.m. CST
Bob is a great DP - Drives his crews hard but is exceptional
by Mennen
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That's not a visual style he uses all the time, certainly, but it's deranged and beautiful. Motherfucker can make a movie.
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I'm more interested in this movie if his involvement is true. But a PG-13 zombie movie is still gonna be too tame.
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rest well, sweet prince.
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If the studio allows them to shoot it as a hard 'R' and just cut it down for the PG-13 theatrical run... then let it live forever on home-video the correct way.
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Nothing about Natural Born Killers is visually "coherent." Fuck that movie.
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Really? Must be a slow news week.
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We'll see.
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because I read the book and it NEEDS to be R!
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April 12, 2011, 1 p.m. CST
Until we get news that this film will be rated R, I won't give two fucks up a cat's ass about the DP, or the Head Boy, or the ASPCA rep or anybody else...
by WriteForTheEdit
Although I must say that "Fast, Cheap and Out of Control" is one of my favorite docs of all time. Great, great Morris piece.
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"Head Boy" LOL!!!! Some times, I kill me....
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Dude this isn't 4chan. Knock it off with the fake celebrity deaths and "sweet prince" comments. Go back to /b/.
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The novel this is based on is... zombie-tastic! It'll be hard to translate it into a movie but, if they manage it successfully, it's going to... eat our brains with its awesomeness!
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I had to walk out of "Battle for LA" which I really wanted to see.
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I just cannot see any way that a single 90-120 minute film can even scratch the surface. Hell, Battle of Yonkers could fill that without a dull moment. Downed lady pilot could easily fill 60 minutes. South Africa??? Could they pull an LOTR 3 movies shot concurrently? Possibly. Will they? Most assuredly not. If I'm wrong I'll happily eat crow right here in the talkback after having luxuriated in that universe.
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This is really coming together nicely. The book is terrific, though very episodic. Can't wait to see this one.
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I can't really picture how they'll structure a standard movie structure out of World War Z. I still believe Waltz With Bashir is the closest in tone and content, but that's far from 'mainstream' Hollywood.
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But whatever it works for you, guys.
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Accidently crossing swords.
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Doesn't happen if you're willing to participate in DP. I argue that one HOPES to cross swords if you're doing that stuff.
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April 12, 2011, 2:16 p.m. CST
Alright. GOOD OLE JIB ARM BOB. No chasing chicks like you and Redford did on Horse Whisperer okay Bob?
by Darth_Kong
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April 12, 2011, 2:47 p.m. CST
The fact that you actually typed the words "crossing swords" is fucking weird
by slone13
If you're actively using that euphemism you've got to be like fourteen years old. If you fucking weirdos are going to discuss this, don't dance around it. Own it. Just say "rubbed your veinous boner against another man's swollen cock". It's much more direct, way funnier, and entirely less retarded than "crossing swords".
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That alone would be worth seeing.
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Honestly. Spell it out. Avoids people going 'hunh?!" As for "Quantum of Solace's problem wasn't with the DP, it was with the fucking editing", I disagree. It was with the basic story. And characters. Bloefeld I remember. Goldfinger I remember. The villain in QUANTUM? Utterly forgettable. And the plot? Silly, silly, silly.
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April 12, 2011, 3:21 p.m. CST
I thought for sure it was going to be Sasha Grey for DP
by In Action Man Reborn Requiem
Damn it, I'm never right. Maybe she can be a Grip. They're the one's that give the hand jobs, right?
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Your comment wasn't quite worth a LOL, but it did make me giggle.
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April 12, 2011, 3:54 p.m. CST
Doesn't matter who the DP is if they didn't improve the script *SPOILER ALERT*
by GreatOne3
The draft I read did not have the downed pilot, did not have the blind Chinese man, did not have the submarine (which, if done right, could be incredibly creepy), or several other great stories. Too bad they can make more money off a movie than an HBO min-series, which I'll join the pile-on in saying that's the only way to do this book justice.<p> Further, where in the book the big secret that the investigator was being warned off from was the Redeker Plan, in the script the "big secret" was how the military screwed up the Battle of Yonkers. Really need to hide the fact that the military should have had more snipers in high places instead of relying on bombs and street-level gunfire. *Yawn* What a ridiculous premise.
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As opposed to the way that the characters in "The Walking Dead" seem to accept the zombies as if they are nothing more disturbing than an outbreak of pesky rabbits.
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It was the fucking director, Marc Forster, who can't direct action scenes, period. And the director supervises the editing and makes sure the editor cuts the film the way the director sees it. Marc Forster is the guy to nail here!
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So any worries about this movie's cast not being well-fed and having a steady supply of M&Ms and wasabi peas can now be put to rest.
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Walking Dead.
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...is probably my favorite novel ever written in the postmodern tradition. It's not really suited for a feature film, though.<br /> <br /> The story is set in a future where mankind has basically rebuilt civilization after its been ravaged by a zombie outbreak. No single character appears in more than one chapter. Each chapter is basically a different short story framed as a nonfiction interview that the narrator conducts with different survivors of the zombie apocalypse. <br /> <br /> Because of that, whatever they end up filming is certain to have little resemblance to the book. A good movie needs a protagonist that wants something related to a past they still need to deal with. And they need a story to find themselves in. This is a book with almost two dozen protagonists!<br /> <br /> Remember the trouble Charilie Kauffman had with Susanne Orlean's "The Orchid Thief" so instead wrote "Adaptation"? Whoever scripts this movie is going to be in an even worse situation than Kauffman was. Even if it ends up being good, this movie will be to Max Brook's novel what Milos Foreman's film version of "Hair" was to the original Broadway musical. It might be familiar to people who've read the book but it will still be too far removed from its source material for that to really matter.
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April 12, 2011, 6:49 p.m. CST
Follow the first chapter chinese doctor, the Israeli spy, the Yonkers grunt,
by Turingtestee
Redeker, the campground families, the soviet decimations, the old VP and the new president. Lose the blind samurai, the airplane chick, the dive/dog teams, the spielbergo director, historical records, and the viral nature of the outbreak
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Scorsese already did his 3D kids' movie, and I didn't even know?
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There was a blind Japanese one though.
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it's two swords, one scabbard.
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April 13, 2011, 10:50 a.m. CST
Considering the readership here, I should have said "crossing light sabers".
by v3d
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April 13, 2011, 12:14 p.m. CST
Hopefully they're not using the Straczynski script, it's fucking awful
by The Dude Abides
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April 13, 2011, 10:58 p.m. CST
A great cinematographer means nothing without a great DIRECTOR to guide him
by Nasty In The Pasty
Brett Ratner had fucking DANTE SPINOTTI shooting most of his films, and they still looked like ass. Having Robert Richardson shooting a Marc Forster movie is like having Picasso paint a fence.
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World War Z was written so badly, and such a bad book, but the concept was good. I hope they don't follow the original material too closely.
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Shut your faggot trap, queer! Assfucker.
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