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=== Writing === From 2001 to 2003, Brooks was a member of the writing team at ''[[Saturday Night Live]]''.<ref name="SNL">{{cite news |first=Jack |last=Sackman |date=February 24, 2016 |title=10 People you didn't know were writers on SNL |website=goliath.com |url= https://www.goliath.com/tv/10-people-you-didnt-know-were-writers-on-snl/ |access-date=March 25, 2020}}</ref> In 2003, Brooks wrote his first book, ''[[The Zombie Survival Guide]]'', a fictional [[Survival skills|survival manual]] about [[zombies]]. In 2006, Brooks wrote the follow-up ''[[World War Z|World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War]]'', a novel on the same subject, set in the ten years following a [[zombie apocalypse]]. [[Paramount Pictures]] acquired the rights for a film adaptation, and [[Brad Pitt]]'s production company, [[Plan B Entertainment]], produced [[World War Z (film)|the film]]. In the October 2006 issue of ''[[Fangoria]]'', Brooks stated that he would not be writing the screenplay for the motion picture, as he felt he was not an accomplished enough screenwriter to "do it right". [[J. Michael Straczynski]] wrote the first version of the screenplay.<ref>{{cite news |first=Don |last=Kaye |date=October 2006 |title='World War Z': The gore to end all gores |magazine=[[Fangoria Magazine]] |issue=257 |page=12 |url=https://issuu.com/comicscrazy/docs/fangoria_257 |access-date=April 17, 2020}}</ref> Brooks wrote the introduction for the hardcover collected edition of [[Dynamite Entertainment]]'s zombie miniseries ''Raise the Dead'', released in 2007.<ref>{{cite web |title=''Raise the Dead'' series collected in hardcover, with foreword by Max Brooks |date= August 10, 2007 |website=[[Comic Book Resources]] |url=http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=11152}}</ref> [[File:MaxMelBrooksApr10.jpg|thumb|Max Brooks with father [[Mel Brooks|Mel]] in 2010]] In 2010, Brooks wrote the [[IDW Publishing|IDW]] comic book mini-series [[G.I. Joe (IDW Publishing)|''G.I. Joe: Hearts & Minds'']].<ref>{{cite web |last=Manning |first= Shaun |date=April 1, 2010|title=Brooks wins ''Hearts and Minds'' |website= [[Comic Book Resources]] |url=http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=25510}}</ref> In 2012, Brooks published ''Closure, Limited and Other Zombie Tales'', featuring the story of that name from ''[[The New Dead]]'', along with three other short stories set in the ''[[World War Z]]'' universe.<ref>{{cite web |title=Max Brooks ''Closure, Limited and Other Zombie Tales'' review |date=December 4, 2014 |website=Horror Novel Reviews |url=http://horrornovelreviews.com/2014/12/04/max-brooks-closure-limited-and-other-zombie-tales-review/ |access-date=August 14, 2015}}</ref> In 2014, [[Broadway Books]] published ''[[The Harlem Hellfighters]]'', a [[graphic novel]] which portrays a fictionalized account of the [[African American]] [[369th Infantry Regiment]]'s experiences in [[World War I]], written by Brooks and illustrated by Caanan White.<ref>{{cite web |last=Lo Wang |first=Hansi |date=April 1, 2014 |title=''The Harlem Hellfighters'': Fighting racism in the trenches of WWI |website=[[NPR]] |type=blog |url=https://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2014/04/01/294913379/the-harlem-hellfighters-fighting-racism-in-the-trenches-of-wwi |access-date=April 12, 2014}}</ref> [[Sony Pictures]] has purchased the rights to create a film of the novel, with Caleeb Pinkett and James Lassiter producing on behalf of [[Overbrook Entertainment]].<ref name=film>{{cite news |last=Ford |first=Rebecca |date=March 7, 2014 |title=Sony nabs Max Brooks' WWI graphic novel ''The Harlem Hellfighters'' |newspaper=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] |url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/sony-nabs-max-brooks-wwi-686887 |access-date=April 12, 2014}}</ref> He wrote the story for the 2016 film ''[[The Great Wall (film)|The Great Wall]]'', starring [[Matt Damon]].<ref>{{cite web |first=Michael |last=Livingston |date=June 7, 2017 |title=Medieval Matters: ''The Great Wall'', white saviors, and lizard dogs from space |website=[[Tor.com]] |url=https://www.tor.com/2017/06/07/medieval-matters-the-great-wall-white-saviors-and-lizard-dogs-from-space/ |access-date=April 17, 2020}}</ref> In 2016, Brooks was invited to [[MineCon]] and announced that he was working on a new novel based on ''[[Minecraft]]'',<ref>{{cite web |first=Marsh |last=Davies |date=September 24, 2016 |title=Max Brooks is writing a Minecraft novel! Oh yes! |website=[[Mojang]] |url=https://www.mojang.com/2016/09/max-brooks-is-writing-a-minecraft-novel-oh-yes/ |access-date=February 27, 2017 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160927083903/http://www.mojang.com/2016/09/max-brooks-is-writing-a-minecraft-novel-oh-yes |archive-date=September 27, 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> titled ''[[Minecraft: The Island]]'', and in 2021, he published the sequel, ''Minecraft: The Mountain''.<ref>{{cite web | last=Ackerman | first=Dan | title=CNET Book Club: Max Brooks on his new Minecraft novel, The Mountain | website=CNET | date=March 12, 2021 | url=https://www.cnet.com/culture/cnet-book-club-max-brooks-on-his-new-minecraft-novel-the-mountain/ | access-date=March 31, 2022}}</ref> In August 2019, Brooks announced a new book, entitled ''[[Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre]]'', about the cryptid [[Bigfoot]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Squires |first=John |date=August 29, 2019 |title=''World War Z'' writer Max Brooks returning with sasquatch massacre novel ''Devolution'' |website=[[Bloody Disgusting]] |url=https://bloody-disgusting.com/books/3581315/world-war-z-writer-max-brooks-returning-sasquatch-massacre-novel-devolution/ |access-date=September 19, 2019}}</ref> It was released on June 16, 2020.<ref>{{cite book |title=''Devolution'' by Max Brooks |isbn=9781984826787 |series=new books |publisher=Penguin / Random House |language=en-US |url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/609523/devolution-by-max-brooks/ |access-date=2020-05-30|last1=Brooks |first1=Max |year=2020 }}</ref>
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