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has tried its hand at the trope too , with the screen adaptation of Max Brooks ’ cult novel World War Z proving an unexpected hit ( and apparently spawning a sequel to be directed by no less than David Fincher ). On TV , it seems every night there ’ s a zombie show broadcast on some channel or other , be it The Walking Dead , Z Nation or French import Les Revenants . At this point it seems the genre has been well and truly exhausted , and new British offering The Girl with All the Gifts has very little to add to this overcrowded market . Author M . R . Carey adapts a screenplay from his own novel , one of many dystopian sci-fi tales to flood the publishing market in recent years . This one ’ s hook is that a young girl , Melanie ( Sennia Nanua ), holds the key to solving this particular zombie apocalypse . With the UK , and presumably the rest of the world ravaged , Melanie is held , along with several other children , in a secret research

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