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Max Brooks

Author, World War Z

We retrieved 1 post and 89 comments from u/IamMaxBrooks, all from 2014, most often in r/IAmA.

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A redditor wrote in r/IAmA

On “I am Max Brooks, author of "World War Z" and the upcoming graphic novel "Harlem Hellfighters". Ask me anything.”

After reading your books like World War Z and The Zombie Survival Guide, I only have one question; how did you transition from writing on jokes on Saturday Night Live to horror?

u/IamMaxBrooks replied

Well let me see. I think my transition away from writing jokes for Saturday Night Live would have be the moment when they fired me.

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A redditor wrote in r/IAmA

On “I am Max Brooks, author of "World War Z" and the upcoming graphic novel "Harlem Hellfighters". Ask me anything.”

Hi Mr. Brooks! I'm a big fan of your work and the genre in general. Can you explain what happened with the movie adaptation of World War Z? It deviated so far from the source material in just about every conceivable way, it's hard to believe that they have the same title. How…

u/IamMaxBrooks replied

Ironically, the fact that it was SO different my book was exactly what allowed me to emotionally divorce myself from the final product. I didn't have to watch my characters be mutilated or my story be perverted. As I've said…

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Ironically, the fact that it was SO different my book was exactly what allowed me to emotionally divorce myself from the final product. I didn't have to watch my characters be mutilated or my story be perverted. As I've said many times, they didn't ruin my book, they ignored it.

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A redditor wrote in r/IAmA

On “I am Max Brooks, author of "World War Z" and the upcoming graphic novel "Harlem Hellfighters". Ask me anything.”

Were you ever on the set of Spaceballs? If so, how cool was John Candy?

u/IamMaxBrooks replied

I was actually on the set and I will say that John Candy was a very sweet man. He is very missed. As I write this, my arse is comfortably seated on a chair from the original battle bridge of Spaceball 1.

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