I’m on the record with my concern about the big-screen movie version of Max Brooks’ “World War Z,” one of my favorite end-of-the-world novels of recent years.

So seing the trailer for the movie starring Brad Pitt, which opens next summer, filled me with even more dread.

The trailer, with Pitt as some sort of … zombie expert? … with his family in New York when the zombie apocalypse begins plays more like the flashback scenes in Will Smith’s “I Am Legend” than anything in Brooks’ ingenious novel, which tells, in episodic scenes that rarely return to the same characters twice, the tale of the fall and rise of civilization.

I’m not sure I can bring myself to see this.