Brad Pitt Defeats DiCaprio in Battle Over Flesh-Eating Zombies

Posted on June 20, 2006

Variety reports that Brad Pitt's production company, Plan B, has defeated DiCaprio's Apprian Way in a battle over the rights to produce a movie based on Max Brooks' new Zombie war novel. Crown is publishing Max Brooks' flesh-eating zombie novel, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War, in September.

In a high-six-figure deal, Paramount PicturesParamount Pictures acquired screen rights to the Max Brooks novel "World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War." Brad Pitt's Plan B will produce.

Brooks' follow-up to satire "The Zombie Survial Guide" sparked a bidding battle, with Warner Bros. and Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way on the other side of the table from ParPar and Pitt.

Book is a sober telling of the aftermath of a war fought against a legion of humans who were inflicted with a virus, died and were reanimated into flesh-eating zombies.

World War Z is a sequel to Brooks' novel The Zombie Survival Guide. Variety didn't say whether Brad Pitt will have a role in the flesh-eating zombie movie. However, Pitt is said to be playing the lead role in another Plan B film, The Sparrow, which is based on the science fiction novel by Mary Doria Russell. So there is the possibility Pitt could act in the zombie apocalypse film either as a zombie or as a handsome man fighting with and running from flesh-eating zombies.

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