A movie version?

As fans of this blog might very well know i often , as in always, compare my books to movies or the prospects of them being movies. I think its because I can connect to movies better, they seem to be the combination of all the arts : story telling, sound, and visual elements. So as I am reading another book its about time I did a movie post , because all you die hard fans won't let me rest if I don't.
I must admit that the idea of a zombie movie is not something of a original one. Over the years there have been a variety of movie full of the living dead. Most are very bad but yet a few rise above to be truly excellent. It's really a shame because as i mentioned in the last post , the reanimated corpse plague is something that is extremely interesting and actually very simple in concept. To explain this I will from time to time in this blogpost speak as director X making a zombie movie ( World War Z for example). To make and effect zombie film or novel one must just follow a few chief guidelines to make it in my opinion effective. First and foremost make the characters normal. This is a concept few wannabe zombie directors grasp, though i dont know why.
So Director X is making World War Z the film version and he first has to make the decision on characters. There are so many to choose from in the book , if he went with all of them the film would be to scatter brained. He goes with 3 , a politician , a soldier, and an everyday person. The next problem ensues in that the characters in the book are designed to for short stories not full films. Director X decides wisely to break up the film into roughly 3 sections that follow each of the characters whose paths occasionally cross throughout the war. Now to flesh out the characters. Hollywood has this bad habit of drawing from the same character shells. In horror movie ( since this is one) for example there are always teenagers who make bad decisions then end up being killed. Director X will have none of that, he observes normal people for his characters. He does not have to look beyond his neighbors for an everyday man character, he does not have to look beyond the T.V for the politician, and for the solider he looks at both. Now director X has a cast of characters and he simply must just think , " how would i react to a terrible crisis that threatened all if i was in their situation". This is just the beginning of director X's movie story , but the rest is for another blog.