[danudey]

It's offtopic, but this is very good advice. As near as I can tell, there aren't any real similarities between the book and the movie; they're two separate zombie stories with the same name, and honestly I would recommend them both for wildly different reasons.

[robertlagrant]

> there aren't any real similarities between the book and the movie; they're two separate zombie stories with the same name

Funny - this is also a good description of I Am Legend.

[btown]

And similarly, I, Robot, which is much more enjoyable when you realize it started as an independent murder-mystery screenplay that had Asimov’s works shoehorned in when both rights were bought in quick succession. I love both the movie and the collection of short stories, for vastly different reasons.

https://www.cbr.com/i-robot-original-screenplay-isaac-asimov...

[robertlagrant]

Will Smith, a strange commonality in this tiny subgenre.

[jonplackett]

I didn’t rate the film really, but loved the book. Apparently it is based on / taking style inspiration from real first hand accounts of ww2.

[KineticLensman]

It’s style is based on the oral history approach used by Studs Terkel to document aspects of WW2 - building a big picture by interleaving lots of individual interviews.

[jonplackett]

Making the movie or a documentary series like that would have been awesome.