You'd think the son of Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft would have settled into a nice comfortable comedy writing gig. But since his days writing for Saturday Night Live, Max Brooks has instead forged a career in an
unlikely niche: zombie expert. Brooks, 39, is author of the best-selling The Zombie Survival Guide (Three Rivers Press, 2003) and World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (Crown, 2006)--which earned him the "Studs Terkel of zombie journalism" moniker--and is being made into a 2012 Paramount Studios movie starring Brad Pitt as a United Nations agent who interviews survivors of a global zombie war. n the latest skirmish of the “vampires versus zombies” battle royal, Spike TV’s Deadliest Warrior uses science to figure out which of the undead clans would win in a fight to the finish.
The show usually pits real warriors or historical figures against one another (think Vikings battling samurai or SaddamHussein going head to head against Pol Pot). But this week’s season-ending episode revolves around a supernatural smackdown.
The Deadliest Warrior research team pulled together vampire and zombie experts to advise as they created the tests for their undead combatants. Consultants included World War Z author Max Brooks, Zombie Research Society founder Matt Mogk and The Vampire Survival Guide scribe Scott Bowen.
unlikely niche: zombie expert. Brooks, 39, is author of the best-selling The Zombie Survival Guide (Three Rivers Press, 2003) and World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (Crown, 2006)--which earned him the "Studs Terkel of zombie journalism" moniker--and is being made into a 2012 Paramount Studios movie starring Brad Pitt as a United Nations agent who interviews survivors of a global zombie war. n the latest skirmish of the “vampires versus zombies” battle royal, Spike TV’s Deadliest Warrior uses science to figure out which of the undead clans would win in a fight to the finish.
The show usually pits real warriors or historical figures against one another (think Vikings battling samurai or SaddamHussein going head to head against Pol Pot). But this week’s season-ending episode revolves around a supernatural smackdown.
The Deadliest Warrior research team pulled together vampire and zombie experts to advise as they created the tests for their undead combatants. Consultants included World War Z author Max Brooks, Zombie Research Society founder Matt Mogk and The Vampire Survival Guide scribe Scott Bowen.
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