- published: 22 Oct 2011
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Maximillian Michael "Max" Brooks (born May 22, 1972) is an American author and screenwriter, with a particular interest in zombies. Brooks is also a television and voice-over actor.
Brooks was born in New York City, the son of the Jewish American director, producer, writer, and actor Mel Brooks and Italian American actress Anne Bancroft.
He is a graduate of Pitzer College, majoring in history, and delivered the commencement speech for the class of 2011.
From 2001 to 2003, Brooks was a member of the writing team at Saturday Night Live.
Brooks is the author of The Zombie Survival Guide. The book touches on what it describes as pop cultural myths about zombies. The book was later followed up in 2009 by The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks, a graphic novel depicting several of the events detailed in the book's latter section.
Brooks' book World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War, which deals with the war between the human race and zombies, was released on September 12, 2006. Paramount Pictures has acquired the movie rights; Brad Pitt's production company Plan B Entertainment will produce the film. In the October 2006 issue of Fangoria Magazine, Brooks stated that he will not be writing the screenplay for the motion picture, as he feels he is not an accomplished enough screenwriter to "do it right" (J. Michael Straczynski is writing the screenplay).
William "Bill" Maher, Jr. ( /ˈmɑːr/; born January 20, 1956) is an American stand-up comedian, television host, political commentator, author, and actor. Before his current role as the host of HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, Maher hosted a similar late-night talk show called Politically Incorrect originally on Comedy Central and later on ABC.
Maher is known for his political satire and sociopolitical commentary, which targets a wide swath of topics including religion, politics, bureaucracies of many kinds, political correctness, the mass media, greed among people and persons in positions of high political and social power, and the lack of intellectual curiosity in the electorate. He supports the legalization of marijuana and same-sex marriage, and serves on the board of PETA. He is also a critic of religion and is an advisory board member of Project Reason, a foundation to promote scientific knowledge and secular values within society. In 2005, Maher ranked at number 38 on Comedy Central's 100 greatest stand-up comedians of all time. Bill Maher received a Hollywood Walk of Fame star on September 14, 2010.
Actors: Jeremiah Lewis (editor), Jeremiah Lewis (producer), Jeremiah Lewis (producer), Jeremiah Lewis (writer), Jeremiah Lewis (director), Jay Lalime (actor), James Lewis (producer), James Lewis (actor), Lauren Parker (producer), Travis Nobles (composer), Scott Gallimore (actor), Chris Williams (actor), Paula Lewis (producer),
Plot: The story of Calhoun (Cal) and Renfield (Wren), two Texas residents who find themselves in the middle of an unexplained zombie crisis. With Cal's home under attack by a ravaging horde of "dead-eyed suburbanites," the two must escape despite Cal's misgivings and insistence that Max Brooks', author of the Zombie Survival Guide, says that the home is the safest place. But as usual in these sorts of stories, an easy escape is not going to be...easy. And as you might expect, not all goes as planned.
Keywords: flesh-eating, human-eaten-by-zombies, suburban-terror, texas, undead, zombie, zombie-spoof, zombie-survival