Brad Pitt Overcomes DiCaprio For 'World War Z'
[Thursday, June 15th, 2006]Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio were engaged in a competitive bidding war over an upcoming zombie horror book by Max Brooks titled World War Z, which Brad Pitt won, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
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. "World War Z" also tackles the zombie genre but is set 10 years after a great global zombie epidemic and is a serious oral history of the future zombie told from many perspectives from around the world. Crown Publishing is putting the book out in the fall.
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