How many of you caught the new James Bond movie QUANTUM OF SOLACE? Well, I thought it was a complete bore and lacked any thrills that a Bond movie should have, which is why I am frightened that director Marc Forster is going to be adapting World War Z for Paramount Pictures. In a new interview with writer J. Michael Straczynski, I have found a whole new reason to be paranoid… the film is said to be compared to THE BOURNE IDENTITY (yikes). Read on for the skinny.
Straczynski talked with MTV a bit about the plans for his adaptation of WORLD WAR Z, which will be directed by QUANTUM OF SOLACE director Marc Forster.

“We talk about it as a thriller, the closest comparison being `The Bourne Identity,’” explained Straczynski, who’s also penning a “Forbidden Planet” revisiting. But at least there’s something to look forward to, such as a sea of zombies.

“Most zombie movies to this point have been small, focusing on a few people in a house. And this has got real scare. You’re in India with hundreds of boats trying to get out of there with a tidal wave of zombies. The scale of what we’re doing here is phenomenal.”

As for how he plans to adapt the novel, which is written from the perspective of a United Nations agent reporting on the events of the zombie outbreak through interviews and eyewitness statements, Straczynski said he plans to preserve that storytelling angle as much as possible. In fact, the movie will serve to show how the book was produced in Brooks’ zombie-infested world.

“The fictional concept of the book is that its written by someone with the UN, so let’s tell that story,” he explained to MTV News. “Let’s show the book being written. We follow this guy all over the world as he goes on these interviews, and he has his own personal story as well. You’re cutting between the past and the present, how he got to this point.

“It has that international feel to it, and because it goes backward and forward in time, we can cherry-pick our favorite moments in the book,” continued Straczynski. “Some of it is crazy in scale. It’s huge. It’s as political as the book was. And it ends with that book being completed.“