Video: Ken Burns’ ‘World War Z’

By  · Published on June 21st, 2013

World War Z is not a very faithful adaptation. By placing it during the war, director Marc Forster and star Brad Pitt have fundamentally altered Max Brooks’ after-the-fact oral history. Which is understandable. They wanted a big-budget, globe-spanning adventure, and that’s hard to squeeze out of a guy traveling the world calmly speaking with survivors.

The movie is out this weekend (Rob’s review), and we couldn’t help but wonder what it would have looked like if it were a little more faithful to the book.

So we turned to our old pal Sleepy Skunk to make a video that imagines what Ken Burns’ version of World War Z would have been like. For all of you aching for a zombie documentary, here’s a small piece of alternate history.

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