Pitt bags zombie movie
2006-06-15 15:38
Los Angeles - Brad Pitt has beaten Leonardo DiCaprio in a bidding war for the film rights to zombie book World War Z, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
The BBC reports that Pitt's production company Plan B and studio Paramount Pictures competed with DiCaprio's firm Applan Way, backed by Warner Bros.
Max Brooks's novel is set 10 years after a global zombie epidemic and is due to be published later this year.
In 2003, Brooks wrote Zombie Survival Guide, which explained in great deadpan detail how to survive a supposedly impending zombie apocalypse. The book went on to become a surprise cult hit.
- News24