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‘World War Z 2’ Just Made A Significant Leap Forward
While World War Z may not have been what fans of the book were expecting, I still think it’s a rather fun and entertaining film. Admittedly, the third act had a radically different feel from the first two. The ending felt so small compared to everything that lead up to it, which featured huge and epic set pieces that ventured all over the world.
Even with all the tumultuous problems during production, the film went on to gross well over half a billion dollars in the worldwide box office, so a sequel was kind of inevitable. And today, that sequel makes a big jump forward towards becoming reality as screenwriter Steven Knight has submitted his draft for World War Z 2.
Knight told Collider:
I think the beauty of the first film was the way that it never paused for breath. It never spent a moment thinking, ‘Hang on a minute, we’d better tell the audience what this is all about.’ It stayed in the moment, it stayed with that person.
Reading that, it seems like we’re once again going to stick to one perspective for the sequel rather than the broken narrative of the book, which was essentially a series of interviews with people who survived the zombie apocalypse. While I’d prefer to see an anthology-esque film on the epic level of the first film, I can’t deny that most audiences would probably despise that kind of storytelling.
Supposedly Brad Pitt is somehow attached to World War Z 2, although his role has not yet been announced. Juan Antonio Bayona (The Impossible) has been locked down to direct.
Read our review of the World War Z here.
After pulling in $28 million at the worldwide box office this month, director (and star) Dev Patel’s critically acclaimed action-thriller Monkey Man is now available to watch at home.
You can rent Monkey Man for $19.99 or digitally purchase the film for $24.99!
Monkey Man is currently 88% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, with Bloody Disgusting’s head critic Meagan Navarro awarding the film 4.5/5 stars in her review out of SXSW back in March.
Meagan raves, “While the violence onscreen is palpable and painful, it’s not just the exquisite fight choreography and thrilling action set pieces that set Monkey Man apart but also its political consciousness, unique narrative structure, and myth-making scale.”
“While Monkey Man pays tribute to all of the action genre’s greats, from the Indonesian action classics to Korean revenge cinema and even a John Wick joke or two, Dev Patel’s cultural spin and unique narrative structure leave behind all influences in the dust for new terrain,” Meagan’s review continues.
She adds, “Monkey Man presents Dev Patel as a new action hero, a tenacious underdog with a penetrating stare who bites, bludgeons, and stabs his way through bodies to gloriously bloody excess. More excitingly, the film introduces Patel as a strong visionary right out of the gate.”
Inspired by the legend of Hanuman, Monkey Man stars Patel as Kid, an anonymous young man who ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club where, night after night, wearing a gorilla mask, he is beaten bloody by more popular fighters for cash. After years of suppressed rage, Kid discovers a way to infiltrate the enclave of the city’s sinister elite. As his childhood trauma boils over, his mysteriously scarred hands unleash an explosive campaign of retribution to settle the score with the men who took everything from him.
Monkey Man is produced by Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions.
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